Legendslayers

Legendslayers

''' "Your gods are your weakness. Our defiance is our strength." '''

The Legendslayers Overview
Regardless of one's personal opinions, one thing can be said universally about the Legendslayers; they are a tenacious group of people. Though their leader's ideologies of personal strength over religious practices have caused many controversies and even sparked a war, this tightly knit group of equal minded people have stood true to the faction's core beliefs.

Early History
When Legendslayers were first founded there were only four members, Jerico Dayre, Embershard Xathrid, Daniel Williams and the renowned Jace Legendslayer. Initially the Legendslayers were posed as a mercenary group, taking Crimin for jobs such as protection and escorts. It was then when they constructed the very first Legendslayer encampment, aptly named 'Camp Legendslayer'. A mysterious traveller by the name 'Keto Anasari' wandered into the camp and joined the group, making it one member stronger. Unfortunately all was not at peace for the small band of mercenaries. The group's leader had attracted the attention from a malevolent spirit named Spectre (see: Echo and Spectre) who caused one of the Legendslayers, Embershard, to go missing, as well as hatred from the dragon Queen. Not to mention the machine Syreh, who wanted to tear the young faction apart after an earlier defeat. Fight after fight and escalation after escalation, Jace was forced to send out a fellow Legendslayer to scout out a new location for the faction.

Fort Legendslayer
After the numerous brushes with destruction, the Legendslayers moved locations from a flat, breezy plains in front of the ocean, to a cold and frigid place known locally as the Frozen North. Construction began quickly on the new, more secure Fort Legendslayer. At this point, the Legendslayers had all but given up mercenary work and were shifting focus on helping the Unity, the group spearheading the fight against the dragon Queen. Construction was halted temporarily as a masked man by the name of Dirus. Dirus was furious at the Legendslayers for constructing their fort so close to his own. Jace Legendslayer was able to negotiate out of any further conflict with the crazed man and relations with Dirus remained somewhat friendly for a long period of time.

As construction of the fort neared completion, the machine Syreh had found the faction holed up in the fort and resumed the attacks. After many attempts, the fort proved impenetrable and the machine vanished. After the machine had left, Embershard had returned, seemingly sane once more. However, this did not last very long, as she eventually started showing signs of insanity once more. She was then sent to Quillborn to be taken care of by Magnus. The defences of the fort showed the prelude of what would be the Legendslayer technical ingenuity. The main hall to the entrance of the fort was lined with traps to snare any and all intruders, should the fort come under attack.

The Legendslayers were focusing all of their efforts to helping the Unity, Jace even becoming a general and playing a very heavy role in some of the battles. Two new members saw themselves into the faction durning this conflict, Moose and Bjorn Farhildur. But, with two new members, the faction saw one of its older members, Keto, vanish without a word. It was at this point that, with the various armies of Templehelm at their side, the Legendslayers defeated the dragon Queen, killing her. Many would consider this point the peak of Legendslayer popularity.

Peace did not grace the Legendslayers for long, as the Damacian war broke out soon after the end of the Dragon War. During this, the faction had lost Daniel, Embershard and Jerico, making Jace the last of the founding Legendslayers. After various attacks on the fort, Jace scouted around Templehelm to find yet another area to move to. During this, he finds the ancient artifact, the Hero's Forge, and starts restoring it. Jace then instructs the other Legendslayers to start building the new Legendslayer town around the artifact, leaving the battle-scarred fort behind.

Forge War
Just as the town was getting built, an army of Zeolites headed by Dirus, stormed Defiance with aspirations of destroying the newly restored Hero's Forge and the Legendslayers. The Zeolites had one advantage over the Legendslayers, though. Through various schemes and releasing false propaganda in regards to the Hero's Forge, they were able to drop Templehelm's opinion of Legendslayers from heroes to villains. Through these actions, the Zeolites were also able to amass an army of Cavicks and Wintivalians. One of the older members that had previously vanished, Keto, had returned to help fight the Zeolites but left the faction permanently soon after the conflict's beginning. Another temporary addition, Lief Ironhide, joins to help in the fight but leaves after the fighting. During the fighting, Jace allied with Celsun, leader of the Aurites, who offered his aid. The Legendslayers were able to fight off the attacks and survive, but the damage to the faction's reputation had been done.

Defiance Development
During the period of peace, the various members of Legendslayers came together to clean up after the war, as well as start developing Defiance as a town. Houses were built, warehouses stocked and the tavern, named the 'Slain Legend', was stocked full of various ales and meads from across the land.

Emeraldite Civil War
Meraldian, king of the Emeraldites goes missing and Dynalir, the king's battle mage, takes charge. The people of Templehelm revolted against Dynalir, sparking the civil war. Jace, as well as other faction leaders, fakes their deaths to fight Dynalir without bringing the war to their people. Jace, for this period, leave Bjorn Farhildur in charge during the war. Production on Defiance continues peacefully throughout the war, never being directly involved. Halfway through the fighting, however, Jace's identity is confirmed by Dynalir and Jace reclaims leadership of the faction. The Focus is built by Madisel and shown to Jace. Legendslayer gains a member during the quazi-peacetime, Brand Ironhide. During civil war, the Shades appear, but Jace is able to negotiate a ceasefire with the leader of the Shades for the time being. Soon after, the civil war ends.

Shade War
Very soon after the Emeraldite civil war comes to a close, the Shades start terrorising Templehelm. The Shades insist that Celsun is working against Templehelm. At the personal request of Celsun, the Legendslayers enter the Shade war to destroy the Shades. In the middle of the war, Madisel vanishes, leaving Jace in charge of the Focus. Jace aids in the destruction of five out of the eight Shades, two other Shades getting destroyed while the final Shade goes missing. During the war, Legendslayers gain two members, Gudzwabofer and Lucid.

Momentary Peacetime
Without the stresses of wartime, Jace tries to convince Templehelm that the Shades were incorrect and that Celsun was not evil. This defames the Legendslayers further, making the general public grow to detest Legendslayers more and more. Just before the next conflict arose, the faction gained another member, Granthem Petit.

Legion Assault
Lesh launched an attack on Templehelm. Jace attempted to make peace with Lesh and move the Legion out of Templehelm in peace. The talks were not successful after Lesh tried to corrupt the Hero's Forge for the Legion war effort. After a denial of the Hero's Forge, the Legion started launching daily attacks on the growing town. Headed by the town's engineers, Granthem and Gudzwabofer, Legendslayers attempted to build defences and weapons to halt attacks and lessen the blow to Legendslayers. Plus, as Legendslayer popularity reached its lowest, various members outside of the faction begin launching attacks of their own on the city.

Deiotakas
Celsun, trying to get rid of the Legion threat from Templehelm, went to the Focus and fired it. Planu then blocked the Focus fire, misunderstanding Celsun's intentions. This caused Planu to fall into a deep sleep and unleash the second Deiotakas. Jace, working on a force field for Defiance fueled by the Focus, was able to see that the Focus had been fired and absorbed the full magical energy from the Hero's Forge, sending him and all the Legendslayers two weeks ahead in time, saving the faction from the apocalypse. This caused Jace extended temporary blindness.

Settlement of Bastion
Legendslayers, brought into the reborn Templehelm, were met with the same aggression, as their popularity still falls among the citizens of Templehelm. Thanks to their remote location, engineering feats and luck, they were able to build up the great walls of Bastion. Due to internal struggles, Gudzwabofer left the Legendslayers.