Chapter 8: Lucius Aurellion
"Lucius Aurellion was the name I picked for the father of my first main in-game character Railius Aurellion. I never thought that I would ever get to play him."
"Or expected the resulting grudges between dynasties and players due to a scheming system that put players against each other."
Reginald Coulan, creator and head of House Aurellion in Dynasties Online.
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After the world had fully reformed around him, Reginald looked around him only to hear the clanging of striking metal, and the gurgling sound of blood as, every few seconds, another death throe was added to the symphony of sounds of the battlefield. Sitting on his snorting chestnut horse on the open field, the banner of his house, a golden pelican feeding its young as they cry out for food in the safety of their nest on a background of crimson red, flew above him as he looked over the battlefield.
Below him, a golden plain of crushed wheat was flattened by the mailed boots of embattled soldiers as a coat of red painted the ground and streams of blood covered the once picturesque landscape. As one side in the battle retreated and an unorganised rout set in, black-clad knights hacked and shot at the running men as the dead’s arms, legs, and bodies littered the ground.
Pleads of mercy and surrender were ignored as the slaughter continued leaving few survivors due to the flat steppe providing no cover and unorganised rear-guard actions providing little resistance to the never-ending tide of pursuers.
After a few moments of taking in the woeful sights of war, notifications appeared in front of Reginald as he looked with disgust at the massacre, even being sick, not used to the smell and death of the battlefield.
The world then disappeared again, and he appeared in a new landscape, trees sparsely populated the landscape as a craggy hill dominated the landscape. Reginald assumed he had been transported to the battlefield he would have to fight on.
[Rise of House Aurellion event started]
[3887 ASA (After Species Awakening)]
[After a lifetime of service in the army, Lucius Aurellion, father of Railius Aurellion, who started as a commoner, has become a landless noble and now leads armies on behalf of Cassius Crestier, the future emperor of the Chavarian empire]