A stranger walks into a tavern to rest for the night in a land far away. He sits down next to the fireplace to warm up and overhears two friends talking.
-Have you ever heard the sad story of the cursed Lord of Stygia, Valefor?
-Stygia?
-Yes, it was once a very powerful Kingdom very far away, well the story goes like this...
-Once upon a time there was a sorcerer destined for greatness, his name was Valefor. In time he became one of the most powerful mages in the world. Stygia fell under his rule and all worshiped him. But all was not good for him nor did things happen the way he planned them to happen.
Long had the Lord of Stygia set his eyes on the Lands of Vultus, Lord of Tharoon, but he waited for the right moment to strike.
He waited, and waited, and waited, and than he waited some more, waited month after month for those bastards to start site searching their lands, until he grew tired of waiting and was forced to invade Tharoon, of course as an entirely defensive act.
After he managed to defend his way to Tharoon lands, he was forced to site search them himself, oh the poor Lord of Stygia and his pathless mages. It was a long and hard effort, if only the Gods blessed him with the speed of Resul Al'Zaman!
Finally he was at peace! After many months of hiking it finally seemed his lands held no more secrets hidden from him, but oooh was he wrong...
He realized that his people were dying, everywhere he looked there were corpses, cities were decimated with no apparent reason!
He wasn't sure he could live with such a loss, all the gold he'd lose!
Suddenly, he heard the voice of the evil, unrighteous, mendacious Lord of Itza, QuadBlessedFlamingHalberds laughing, hahaha, yes, all your population will gradually die off!!!
Petrified by his words he knew he had to take some action!
How was he to replace his gold, I mean population? He had no choice but to annex the Kingdom of Ogre, so he did.
But he was soon heart broken by the state in which he found his new lands, siteless and goldless...
He wept for long and wondered how he deserved such a cruel fate and than he finally knew what needed to be done!
His lands needed to be blessed! He long prepared to bless his lands with the Gift of Natures Bounty but once again the evil Lord of Itza stepped in and ruined his plans, and used Valefors ideas for his own purpose and blessed his own lands!
Seeing what the mad, power driven Lord of Itza was doing, Valefor had no other option other than to place Alchera under his protection, so he did.
But the mindless brute of Itza didn't like this noble act so he viciously attacked him with no prior warning.
Driven by mindless rage the Lord of Stygia yelled, KABLAM! in the style of Mel Gibson the Braveheart and so the war between Itza and Stygia began...
Forgive me but I'm very bored right now and can't sleep...