SECOND EXPANSION THE HAG & THE STARCHILD (DÖKKÁLFAR/DARK ELVES VS. HUMANS) The forest of Kioss, is under attack by the dökkálfar. Searching and scouwering the forest to find something in the Kioss Tribe's possession. The Night King sent the most vile warsingers, from the dark temple of Azachillya in the Darklands, these warsingers are known as the hags a division of females that embody fear, and terror both in appearance and deed, with dreadful, screams of echoes and singing. Leading these women is the Screaming Hag Queen, Kiira Alsem, a vile and dark she-dökkálfar, tasked by the Night King to claim a relic that is guarded by the Kioss tribemen. That relic is the Ebony Spear, a Vaag blessed weapon that was long lost, and while unbelievable amounts of Drone Metal power, making a sought after price for the dark elves' total conquest. Achieving this task intrusted to her, while provide her with her greatest desires being awarded to her, so Kiira lead her sisters and many dökkálfar forces to invade and ravish the forest in search for the Ebony Spear, and slaughter any that stand in her way.
While the forces of the Screaming Hag Queen, started to ravish the dear lands of the Kioss Tribe, a figure that is one of the shadows. A huntress that make her territory in the darkest depths of the forest, she is a protector mounted on a fearsome Shadow Panther, she is the Starchild, Nitani Stareye, a proud daughter of the Kioss Tribe. Enraged by this sacrilege occuring on her home, she took her spear, with the blessing of the tribe leader Damon Demonmark, she gathers a force of her tribesmen and mount a attack against these dark elf invaders.
As the shadows are their ally, these two ladies of war, are destined to encounter each other in the field of battle, as a great clash awaits when the Hag meets the Starchild...
NEW LEGENDARY LORD-DÖKKÁLFAR
Name: Kiira Alsem Title: The Screaming Hag Queen. Faction: The Daughters of Repeteating Screams. Weapon: Axe-Base. Weapon Name: Velvet Reigns. Class: Warsinger-Basist. Territory: Azachillya Sanctum. Appearance: Pale skinned, white and black large haired like the 80s dark elf woman with pierced very long, pointed ears, her piercings resembling a young crow/raven skulls and some chrome spikes on her eyebrow, and below the lower-lip, dark purple lipstick, a self cut tongue like a snake, she wears long, velvet collar band tied around her neck, gray sleeveless leotard with three large studs trailing down the front, open black, purple and gray accent long-sleeved open short jacket, a white band tied around her waist with skulls bound to it, a pair of black and purple accented gloves with dökkálfar crest in burgundy, long black leather form fitting pants with symbols and prints around the Vaag like knee-pads, and a pair of burgundy short-heels. Background: Hags. A special kind of warsinger amongst the dökkálfar, which are exclusively female. Blessed by the Deep One, with great voices that causes the land and souls that hear to tremble, and their visage a twisted amalgamation of beauty and ugliness, hence their name, as Hags. And the greatest amongst these dark women of the dökkálfar is her, Lady Kiira Alsem. Her tale began long ago, in the eastern regions of the darklands, she was of noble birth, posseing great beauty, wealth, power, and untold arrogance. Sharing the trait that many nobles of her race have, ego, arrogance, immorality and debaucherous appetite that she fulfilled whether being of the sexual to the more depraived kinds of hungers. Kiira, she had everything, except actual power, before she became greatest among the hags of the darklands, she was more of a spoiled, and never satisfied princess, that made more enemies than allies throughout the centuries. It only became worse when her greed and hunger for more, resulted in her poisoning her entire family in a grand banquet gathering and then assuming control of the Alsem family and their territories in Wallachia. But she was far from a suitable ruler, her lands quickly fell to chaos, misery, and disarray, not that it matter she'd ruled with an iron fist and fluent her cruelty and soo called power often. That eventually all that abuse and torment she'd wrought to the masses that she was supposed to rule over, rouse up against her, instigated by her own majordomo Hazett Crük. She was literally dethrone, stripped of all her possessions, left naked and cold in the dangerous wilds of the darklands, a literal fall from her former grace and at the mercy of any beast or savage that roamed the once flourish lands that used to be her's, despite everything...Kiira, she managed to survive for days. Days that she'd struggled and fought through everything to stay alive, forced to the muck and eating anything that she could catch or scavage, this brought bitterness and hatred towards all that betrayed her, along with gaining a hatred for herself in such a pathetic state, force to face her own reality...she is weak, Kiira, she deluded herself of being strong and possessing any semblance of power. Now all that Kiira could do is squirm in the muck and dark to survive, fueled by her bitterness, and growing anger that pushed her to keep living, and gain her revenge in the future. Until one night, she was found by a old hag, named Uylka the Gray, who sensed great wickedness and potential within Kiira that she took her in, and mentor her in the arts of warsinging from the Hag of Azachillya. Kiira discovered that she has great abilities as a warsinger, and took into singing Drone Metal like a elder amongst the Hags, Uylka, personally took to mentor the fallen noble lady, all her time indulging her sickly desires made her quite skilled and open to the ways of the hags, and the ritualistic ascension amongst their ranks known as the "Blackening". As stated the Blackening, is the dark arts the young sisters of their order take to learn various acts, like specific torture and mutilation to harness the best screams for songcraft, perform dark rituals and rites to gain Vaag's favor, and absorb the pain, anguish, and screaming from slaves, captives, and enemies to empower themselves, keeping themselves beautiful and vital, but at the cost of tainting their souls and spreading dreadful visage to all lesser beings, hence the ritual ascension was name the "Blackening", and Kiira embraced it fully. She was enraptured by the secrets and powers she'd uncovered, and through the Blackening, regain much of her damaged and lost complexion from her moments lost in the wilds, along with learning how to fight and kill. Kiira, rouse through the ranks of her sisterhood, and was the only one that has become every class, from a Shrieking Sister, to a Mistress, she embraced and master each class, earning the acknowledgement, respect and admiration from her sisters of her sisterhood. Uylka, was soo impressed by Kiira, that she not only put in her word to make a full-fledged Hag, but bestowed with a powerful weapon and instrument, a axe-base, called Velvet Reigns, for the first time Kiira, she felt grateful and satisfied with anything. She believes that all her time, struggles, and pain was for this moment, soo she could become a Hag, and a Hag she became. One of the most powerful, influential, and revered hags in Azachillya, that many that faced in battle would flee on mention of her, thus earning her the title of the Screaming Hag Queen. But her name truly became renowned, when she enacted her revenge. Gathering the full might of the Daughters of Repeteating Screams, she lead a massive attack of her soo called "homeland", a brutal and merciless massacre inoccured. Her battle prowess and soul retching singing, like falling angels in symphony, devastated everyone and thing in the path of her songcraft, Kiira, she even found a now elderly Hazett Crük, the new lord of the land, and she butchered him slowly. Taking hours to mutilate and torture him to death, collecting his screams to enhance her own warsongs for there-after, as the lands were destroyed and Kiira had retribution. The Night King, Malal Deathblade, was soo impressed that he summoned her and her fellow hags, making them the rulers of these lands destroyed by them, renaming the all Azachillya, and for this grand benefit that Kiira brought to the sisterhood, she was made Hag Matriarch, the true leader of the Daughters of Repeteating Screams. Ever since the Hags, have been gaining favor, and position of power through the darklands under the Night King's blessing, all cause of the dark reign and guidance of Kiira Alsem.
New Units DÖKKÁLFAR FACTION Lord-Enchantress of Vanity: Higher ranking dark elf women, ladies of their respected house wearing extremely flamboyant clothing with some skin, or pelt, or feathers from various creatures and races in the land, armed with eccentric sabers and surprisingly skilled fighters and commanders in battle, having a special ability to collect "material" from slain enemies to increase their defenses and other stats, making the more dangerous as they extend the battle.
Heroes-1.Wicked Bladelords: Members of special dark order in the dökkálfar, that dedicate everything in pursue of mastering a great blade known as a wicked-edge, this obsession is to cause as much pain with the elegance of swordsmanship, making them able fighters with a special ability to cause "screams" onto enemies, enhancing warsingers in a certain range, good in physical stats but mainly a "support" hero for a warsinger force.
2.Hags: The powerful, fear inducing, and dark warsingers that are apart of the sisterhood of the Daughters of Repeteating Screams, both sensual and horrific dökkálfar, taking some inspiration from their Hag Matriarch, wearing leotard and dark jackets, mainly carrying dark instruments into battle, dealing high magical damage, capable wielding a large amount of Metal-blessed equipment, able to enhance other warsingers and possess a passive that disturbs enemies into having difficulties facing them and their forces.
Exclusive Units-The The Daughters of Repeteating Screams-1.Shrieking Sisters: Lower ranking members of the sisterhood of the Daughters of Repeteating Screams, performing the basic steps of the "Blackening" rituals, barely clothed or armored, these dark elvish women are agile and demented fighters, hoping to gain the notice of a higher ranking sister through the bloodshed they wrought and gain mentorship, because of their constant shrieking and low-status they are called Shrieking Sisters, and mainly wield a pair of razor-sharp short blades, while low OK defense, their mobility, and numbers greatly make up for this drawback.
2.Torturesses: Possessing a special, dark talent in the administration of pain and suffering, these gilded Vaag masked women wield whips and short sickles into battle to cause as much damage possible, having a higher possibility to inflict bleed on their victims, high mobility and damage, at the cost of low defense.
3.Ritual Madame: The sisters extremely talented in performing rituals and special Drone Metal glyphing, gowned in blackish upper dresses while exposing their curvy legs, and shape, embracing the darker aspects of the Blackening, mainly warsingers able to carry various instruments, preferably the echoing scepter (mics) to sing and inscribe Sound Glyphs.
4.Mistress of Screams: Exceptionally cruel dark elf women, with large hairstyle, having a dark talent with commanding and tormenting slaves that the sisterhood own, they wead scampi clothing covered in chains, and chain-links, armed with barbed whips and clubs to fight and cause damage to their cast under their ownage to cause as much screaming possible, this serve to enhance their sisters along with themselves, but overtasking cast could result in several units perishing, since the cast are basically their armor as these women are low defense and health pools, is all about balancing.
5.Screaming Cast: The lowest in the dark elf society, slaves that suffered a worse fate, as a Mistress took ownership of them, shaving these men or women bald, covered in scars of dark ritual, with them all bound and leashed to a mistress, acting as meat shields for the she-dökkálfar of the Daughters of Repeteating Screams, but in the hand of a mistress the casts, gain a special ability to use damage they suffer can be used to heal, or strengthen both physically or magically the attacks of the she-dökkálfar owning them.
Monster-Basilisks: Black scaled giant, multi-barbed serpents that breed and thrive in the darklands, the most capable dökkálfar are able to tame these deadly monsters, possessing a couple "weapons" from a toxic poison, to a gaze ability that causes victims to suffer a form of magical damage, high mobility and defense, but suffer from low magical defense.
Basic Units-1.Gore Pikers: Heavy black-armored infantry, relinquishing their former life for war, and the sweet symphonies of war, armed with long pikes to tear apart their victims with excruciating actions, slow but high defense troops, capable of fighting in close to mid-range combat.
2.Deep Howlers: Dökkálfar armed with a special weapon that harness the destructive force of Sound and Drone Metal, called the "Vaagian Howlers" that allow them to blast waves of powerful sounds to their victims, this weapon and equipment is heavy and large reducing their overall movement, but their range and damage output more than makes up for this weakness, making them basically heavy-armored ranged units.
NEW LEGENDARY LORD-HUMAN
Name: Nitani Stareye Title: The Starchild of the Black Depths. Faction: Kioss Tribe. Weapon: Spear. Weapon Name: Nightshade. Class: Melee Calvary Specialist. Territory: Kioss Forest. Famed Mount: Tearfang. Appearance: Young and slightly toned red-eyed human woman of the Kioss Tribe, and like members of that tribe she paints herself in warpaint, mainly white allover her body, with red lips with sharp-edges, and a large black star with silver edges and some smaller silver star drops belong that same large black star, she has black short, unruly, spiky hair, she wears a panther pelted skull on her head like a helmet with some spikes attached to the forehead, a black leather collar with copper studs, a long feathered coat hanging from her shoulders like a cape, black and gray leather short-top with a studded round breast armor-pad, one shoulder covered multi-brown straps connected to a long, copper spiked, finger glove, a short leather and furred left short glove with copper claws, black fur pelt tied around her waist, dark brown short-shorts with a copper belt buckles and studs, a pair of dark gray fur knee-high warmer with a rounded armor padding on these warmers, a pair of black furred ankle bands, while barefooted. Background: The Starchild. Her name is Nitani, a that became as a great of legend as the Chieftain, Damon Demonmark. A wild child and capable huntress and fighter in the Kioss Tribe. Skilled spear user and one of the first of her generation that became a panthermarked, bonding deeply with a shadow panther that she named Tearfang. Her rise to glory started when a large gnoll pack came to raid their forest, she armed with a special spear mixing metal material with poisonous vines and roots, Nitani mounted her dear Tearfang, and leading a small force of panthermarked, she went to face these savage gnoll raiders. Like the shadow panthers her cast are bonded with, they went undetected by their prey, and struck at the gnolls. Even with their strength, keen senses, and wargs, the gnolls couldn't match Nitani and her troops stealth, and deadly attacks on them. Her spear cut down everyone of these beasts, and her dear Tearfang, fought with her and protected her, as she eliminate the raiding pack that dared to attack her dear home. That was the first of many victories that Nitani accomplished, in the name of her tribe. After that battle with the gnolls, she gained recognition from Lord Damon and her tribe, leading many hunting parties and battle since. From facing human intruders to even wraiths that have come to harm her tribe, even managing to tame one of the greatest beast of Kioss Forest, the Black Bears for the use of the tribe benefit, so her warsingers known as shamans have granted her a great honor of bestowing a blessing upon her. Under a bright star filled night, as a grand concert ritual for Odyiir, in order to grant the blessing from the shamans to her, but before they can grant her a second name and title, she was marked with a pillar of bright light that shun upon Nitani. A light that composed from starlight, it was a divine sign from the Warlord, as powers untold surge through Nitani, as she was named the Starchild, with some stars marking her face and warpaint. As for her name, she was granted Nitani Stareye, the grand huntress and beastmaster of the Kioss Tribe. Nitani was surging with honor, as she gained new abilities, from cat like sight and reflexes, greater strength than the largest men in the tribe, and while mounted on Tearfang, he was able to breathe fire and command other Shadow Panthers. Nitani, thus is among the greatest heroes of the tribe, loyal to the tribe, the chieftain, and the beasts of the forest.
New Units HUMAN FACTION Lord-Beast Lancers: A special knightly order that gained the name after their main action, slaying beasts using Metal-blessed lances, hence their order is known a Monstrous Jinete, as they care not who they fight for as long as they can face the enemies of Man, they are heavy-armored knights, which accessorize with pelts, furs, and parts from slain beasts onto their armor, they mainly fight on horseback, armed with a powerful lance in battle, being a calvary specialist their low-mobility is counter, they are highly mobile and capable of tanking and dealing good amounts of damage, because of their skills and visage many people flock to join them in battle, and of course their highly effective against beasts.
Exclusive Unit-Kioss Tribe-Black Bears: One of the mighty beasts that rule and roam through the Kioss Forest, larger and stronger than a common bear, with fur black as shadows, the Kioss Tribe managed to tame these great ursun predators and paint some of their fur white with charms placed on them to grant them protection from enemy songcraft, these beast while average movement, they deal great damage and are quite effective against monster units.
Beast-Warhogs: Hogs of war, strong, large tusked, and fast beasts that were breed for battle by Humans, making them tamed beasts, that are capable of handling tough terrains, acting as strong fast moving and good flanking the enemies of their masters.
Basic Unit-Freeclaws: Former members of the Kioss Tribe, that were drawn to the thrill of battle and adventure, acting as swords-for-hire, earning them the name of freeclaws, painting themselves in warpaints like their former tribe and possess high defense and resistance to poison and mental damage, able to carry either swords or axes to battle, and effective against monster units.