A Crusaders Journal Entries

Leaving for the Crusade today. I know it is the right thing to do, and while I'm ashamed to be a bit fearful, my commitment is unshaken. The danger the forsaken pose is impossible to understand or express and we have the best chance since this whole conflict began to end it. Or at least strike the hardest blow to it by destroying the head of the forsaken. I will head the Keepers call and follow General Galan wherever he leads us.

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Man I'm tired. 2 months since I signed up. Captain Alivia has been working hard to train all us peasant recruits. Who thought there was so much to swinging a sword. I try to swing with my hips and not just my arms, keep good footing and practice forms that still leave me able to defend. We can't be sure what we will encounter but with faith we will endure.

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I hear the sent the 501st division on a scouting mission past the mist. rumor says it did not go well. Beholders, pit fiends, balors, and everything else you've ever had a nightmare about if the rumor are be believed. Yet light is with us. I was starting to have a good time here waiting so long as teh armies gatherred. This is a good reminder of why we are here. MY prayers go to the lost of the 501st this night.

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Faith and strength of arms won the day. I was no where near the fighting by General Galan ordered an all out front march on the Heart to take it by force. MY unit was further back but I hear the airships and the skyriders struck fast and hard past the border. Tonight we camp in what was before considered Ishmael's territory. Look out Navigator of Chaos we are coming for you. I have a bet with Terrance my tent buddy on who can drive their sword through the villain first.

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The horrors of war can not be described. You hear stories about Darkness Falls, and Pelinor fields, and the demon wars but until you see it you can't know. Scattering the demons to the wind brought something worse. Golemns. End of the world golemns. Billions of them more than can be counted. They pummel men and horse alike. Walls are broken before them. Tehy do not sleep they do not need to eat nor do they tire. heartless and cold they kill. For everyone we take down it seems more appear to the rear of their ranks like there is some unseen factory just producing them faster than they could ever be destroyed. At first we tried to fight, working the units in shifts against their nonstop attack. But the plan has changed. General Galan wants to charge faster and harder. Word is closer to the Heart of Darkness magic gets unpredicatable and the golemns who need magic to survive will stop functioning be unable to pursue. I have to go we are marching now.

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I heard the news today. Raquel Al'Shatel is to be executed for refusing to help teh crusade. I can't believe it. Maybe its just rumor we are well past any point of news of messages getting through so it has to be rumor. Perhaps spread by the darkfriends in the camp. Yes it must only be rumor.

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Earlier rumor must have been just that. general Galan was replaced as head of the Crusade by Councilman Raquel. I feel safe and inspired with him at the helm. I even saw him walking through camp the other day, at least I think it was him. We have driven to where the golemns can no longer reach out. But what was waiting was a devestating surprise. The zerg. Yes the same from the Raven wars. I have heard the officers say they should have known from the filmy ground we had to walk on. We travelled most of day on that filth finding little hives that seems to make it, and then from beneath us came thousands of burried horde. They ripped through the unsuspecting parts of our ranks. At the same time the attacked the perimeter. Somehow we got an area secured and clean out the infested internal areas. I killed a dozen or so zerglings myself. better than I ever did against the golemns. They are fast but Terrance and I stuck together and they couldn't take us both at the same time. They have ordered we stop here after the massive loses and surprise attack to take inventory and make sure we can regroup before facing more. Though their attacks on the outer rim of the camp do not stop.

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The Light prevails again. I guess the zerg all talk to eachother in their minds. Some of them called queens control the others. The shogun we have we able to use the force to prevent them from talking. They all went crazy attacking and eating eachother. We still lost a few but this enemy has been out thought by the power of the light. Our numbers are down the camp is smaller and smaller. I heard they called for reinforcements but I don't even know how they would get here.

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Day 2 with no food. We must be close to the heart of darkness now because everything looks and feels broken, chaos magic they call it. Its why the magic wouldn't work a few miles back, why the shogun and the lanterns can't function now, and why all our food is going rotten. Water too. We must now be sustained on faith alone.