Warlords: Strategic Conquest
"Nahru- that little boy. Very well. To chaos."
With that, he slips out of your room as quietly and stealthily as he entered. Later on, you question your guards but none of them noticed anything out of the ordinary. You chastise them for their incompetence and make plans to tighten up your palace security.
A few days later, an advisor speaks up during a routine cabinet meeting. "I have been hesitant to tell you this before today because the rumors were unconfirmed, but now I believe I have heard enough reports from reliable sources to state this as fact. General Nahru has been assassinated."
Your other advisors sit in slack-jawed silence. He continues, "The General's servants heard loud noises coming from his tent and ran in, only to discover General Nahru and a masked man frozen in place, facing each other, with each man's sword fixed in the other one's chest. Nahru was reputed to have been one of the most ferocious swordsman in the world, so the masked man had to have been equally impressive. I am not sure yet about the identity of the masked man, but I heard he was carrying a card with a pictograph of an eight-point star, like the ones left behind from the other assassinations. He may have been involved in those as well."
So ends the episode of the masked assassin. You never hear anything again about him and you don't think you ever will. At least he did you a favor before he died.
Losing their charismatic leader so suddenly, Nahru's troops are demoralized and lose their focus. Many desert his ranks. His empire crumbles and chaos reigns again in the north. None of the lesser warlords competing to take Nahru's place stand out from the rest. It looks like Iconoclast got his wish after all, at least in part, for now.
You ready yourself for the final challenge. You finish preparing for negotiations with Governor Toleron.
With that, he slips out of your room as quietly and stealthily as he entered. Later on, you question your guards but none of them noticed anything out of the ordinary. You chastise them for their incompetence and make plans to tighten up your palace security.
A few days later, an advisor speaks up during a routine cabinet meeting. "I have been hesitant to tell you this before today because the rumors were unconfirmed, but now I believe I have heard enough reports from reliable sources to state this as fact. General Nahru has been assassinated."
Your other advisors sit in slack-jawed silence. He continues, "The General's servants heard loud noises coming from his tent and ran in, only to discover General Nahru and a masked man frozen in place, facing each other, with each man's sword fixed in the other one's chest. Nahru was reputed to have been one of the most ferocious swordsman in the world, so the masked man had to have been equally impressive. I am not sure yet about the identity of the masked man, but I heard he was carrying a card with a pictograph of an eight-point star, like the ones left behind from the other assassinations. He may have been involved in those as well."
So ends the episode of the masked assassin. You never hear anything again about him and you don't think you ever will. At least he did you a favor before he died.
Losing their charismatic leader so suddenly, Nahru's troops are demoralized and lose their focus. Many desert his ranks. His empire crumbles and chaos reigns again in the north. None of the lesser warlords competing to take Nahru's place stand out from the rest. It looks like Iconoclast got his wish after all, at least in part, for now.
You ready yourself for the final challenge. You finish preparing for negotiations with Governor Toleron.