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==The General: Evocate-General Umun'arath, Primus of All Legions== | ==The General: Evocate-General Umun'arath, Primus of All Legions== | ||
My dear companion, let me confess this: to know true joy, one must also experience true sorrow. I am sorry for Umun'arath, the worst mistake I ever made. | |||
In ages past the emperor ruled alongside the Praetorate, the degenerate and venal military aristocracy. The Legions made an iron wall around them, and the people suffered so the Legions could grow. I cast down the Praetorate! I gave the Legions the right to speak as citizens! But I still needed armies, and armies need a leader. So I chose a combat veteran to serve as Evocate-General. | |||
I thought I could show Umun the great works and delights of our Cabal, and thus teach her that war is only a way of protecting happiness. But she would say to me, "The was is all there is. All this" - the crowds, the triumphal architecture, the gardens in the sky, everything I'd built - "this is just logistical support." | |||
I watched her. I wasn't a fool. But when at last she betrayed me, she acted through a simple [[consul]] and his protégé - damnation upon the name of Ghaul! Umun'arath would consign my people to an eternity of fear and strife. She would pillage and tax my people in the name of their "protection", and yet it will be the soldiers that she protects. | |||
Umun'arath must die. | |||
Her flagship's hull is adamant, her weapons crack planets, and she stands ever vigilant. For Umun sees terror all around her: [[Vex|machines]] who can eat her worlds, [[Fallen|barbarians]] who corrode her frontiers, [[Hive|wizards]] who thirst for her soul, and worse. | |||
Umun is afraid of the outside. See that her doom comes from within. | |||
==The Confidante: Iska'al of Fantor== | ==The Confidante: Iska'al of Fantor== | ||