The Siege of Ordelarath

### Features

Sarak, Dr. C\_\_\_\_\_, Morlockian soldiers, Knassus Reeve, Delarasay, H'darri Slo, Engar Gaimon

### Main setting

Ordelarath, AOE 75,526

The Siege of Ordelarath (temp title) is a novel. Set within the Desolation War, it details the titular siege. Uniquely, it is structured like a non-fiction historical work.

## Characters

* Finn
* Sergeant Cavathil Clay
* Sarak
* Chroneth
* H'darri Slo
* Mistress Greene
* Engar Gaimon
* Doctor C\_\_\_\_\_
* The guard
* The Dark Angel
* Delarasay
* Knassus Reeve
* Sa'thar Dhail

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## Plot

### The Prologue

On the day Twenty-One Reed of the year AOE 75,525, Erasmus Morlock sends a small squadron from his Imperial Scientifica to colonize the planet Ordelerath. On the same day, a Great Houses criminal being transferred to an interstellar asylum is mysteriously kidnapped.

### Chapter 1: Drawn to Ordelarath

#### A Growing City

Over the span of a year, a new city (Volth-ille) is established on Ordelarath, with a member of Morlock's Arcanetrix Militorium being placed as its mayor's second-in-command. Various former and current members of the ArcMil are also present within Volth-ille, situated in its dockyards.

#### The Mistress and the Serpent

On Day Five Red, several people begin visiting Ordelarath. The first is an extragalactic ship (the Ul\*Shal) that lands in the dockyards of Volth-ille. The "captain" of the ship, a Nathairi named Finn begins looking through the ArcMil and settles into the "den" (on the surface, a shop of magical items) of Mistress Greene.

#### The Military Mind

The next arrival is a group of soldiers from the Imperial Militia, the defensive military of the Empire. Led by Sergeant Cavathil Clay, they have been sent as defense of an Imperial Scientifica experiment on the ley lines. While first meeting with the Scientifica, a mysterious "gargoyle-like" guard shadows them.

#### A Rather Unexpected Arrival

In the days following his arrival on Ordelarath, Finn begins looking through the dockyards for any new arrivals. He eventually finds a surprising one, his son. Engar (only half-believing that Finn is his father), acts bitterly towards him and refuses to join him (along with Knassus Reeve, Delarasay, and H'darri Slo) in becoming a member of Mistress Greene's den.

#### "A soldier of the future, the brave new world."

Another new arrival that Finn meets is one seemingly from the future. A mysterious sorcerer named Chroneth, he accosts Finn while he is stalking around the dockyards. They briefly discuss the future, though Chroneth deliberately keeps many things vague.

#### Blue Robes

The final new arrival is rather more malicious. Shortly before Finn's arrival, a serial killer targets the dockyards. This killer ritualistically murders several people. One of their victims manages to escape, and reports a cybernetically augmented blue-robed figure being shadowed by a "gargoyle-like man in black robes".

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## References

* The Desolation War began on the day Sixteen Reed of the year AOE 75,525 with a battle betwen the Cybecticum and the Great Khans over the skies of Ku-Lokis Prime.
* At the same time as this, the Great Plague (presumably began by Sepsis) started in the O-Sel Expanse - affecting the Imperium of Erasmus Morlock.

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## Notes

* Doctor C\_\_\_\_\_ and the guard are implied to be Dr. Coomer and Benrey from wayneradiotv's Half-Life VR but the AI is Sentient.

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