Acacuati Massacre

The Acacuati Massacre was a significant event in Vosqinese history, standing as one of their highest death counts in a single day. The reason for the massacre was the Vosqinese military attempting to capture criminal Renato Serra.

## Renato Serra

Renato Serra was a Vosqinese man who grew up in the city of Calchester. As his family was poor he was forced into a life of crime.

When he reached the age of 14, Renato had his first incident with the guard, caught stealing a loaf of bread. The punishment for such a crime at his age was a lashing, the Guard Captain Remigo using extra effort when whipping the boy.

Renato’s crimes continue to grow, growing in severity. At 17 he had another run in with the Calchester Guard, getting caught raiding an escort. When the guards tried to take him in, Renato had a sudden Awakening, allowing him to fight off the guards. Now added to his crime list was murder, killing two of the guards that tried to stop him.

Having too much heat on him, Renato moved to Deki and started a small crime syndicate. The crime syndicate continued to grow, gaining him more notoriety among the guard. Violence was slowly becoming more naturalised on the streets, as Renato began his quest to kill the other crime groups in the city.

## Bounty

Eventually it reached its peak in **609R**, forcing the Vosqis Queen Gabriela to bring in the Vosqinese military into the city and deal with the crime. Her first act was to make Renato Serra an A-Rank criminal, in accordance with the Aliquam Guild guidelines.

Now a special-class criminal, bounties were given to the Aliquam Guild and Viper’s Fang in order to hunt down and capture Renato. The Vosqis Fang infantry were given the same task, but allowed to kill the target if allowed.

## Massacre

With the bounty placed on his head, Renato Serra avoided many encounters with the guards and Guild members, retreating to the Vosqis countryside. He eventually held up at the village of Acacuati, letting his guard capture the citizens.

When news reached the Vosqis Fang, they made their way to the village, surrounding it on all sides. Guild members from the Viper’s Fang accompanied the soldiers on their way to the village, being paid by the Queen for their services.

In the morning, the soldiers and guild members raided the village, aiming to finally capture the A-Rank criminal. Renato’s guard wasn’t able to put up much of a fight, being killed or captured in the early minutes of the fight.

Renato on the other hand was a different story, having Awakened abilities, he cut through any of the soldiers that got in his way. The only people that were able to keep up with him were members from the Viper’s Fang, having an A-Rank and 5 B-Rank individuals in their group. Having similar strength, Renato was cornered again in the street of the village.

Rather than concede defeat, Renato decided to do something different. As a Warlock, he had made a pact with his patron in exchange for his soul, a fact he loved sharing with his enemies. Now, he called in on the pact, giving everything he had in order to escape the situation. The patron on the other end accepted, creating a large explosion.

The large explosion gave him some room to breath, but in a bloodlusted state he charged into the soldiers. Little reports come through about what happened next, the only real accounts coming from one of the B-Rank Guild members.

Here he stated “It took us 3 hours to take him down, costing many lives in the process. He fought with a power we had not seen before, something fiendish in nature. Even his body began to change, his skin turned red and his blood became fire. I was knocked unconscious mid-way through the battle, awakening at the end to see the river of blood. In the end, we managed to take him out, I played my small part with my bow.

I still remember his last words when he fell to the ground. He screamed them at the top of his lungs as if he was in front of a crowd and not in a blood-soaked arena. ‘While my life may be taken, you will all lose in the end.’”

## Aftermath

Queen Gabriela announced it as a victory for the Vosqinese people, taking out one of their most dangerous enemies and ending the Renato Crime Syndicate. To reduce panic, she made sure to silence many of the reports about what happened in the village, slowly adding the names of the fallen to the shrine in the city.

After the massacre, research was done into the amount of people that Renato killed. The research, finished a week later, concluded that around 580 soldiers died that day and 4 Guild members, including the A-Rank.