Originally posted by Volean Saboteur:

The scent of burning incense is carried through the wind.

Their robes are shrouded in ash and ember. Here I am, witnessing the last of all the rituals I have seen before.

Candles are being lit. The wax is pungent and striking - the smell is that of ammonia, known for waking the dead and unconscious.

"Invoke", one of the elders speak in the crowd.

His voice makes an attempt to echo out into the hall, sharpened instead by the presence of thousands of cultists. All of them are dressed in red and gold.

My heartbeat accelerates. Theirs too, but not in fear. I am too afraid to speak. They are too devout to speak.

"Invoke," the elder chants again. Then, he starts to speak in tongues I cannot recognize, and the crowd chants with him. This time, the voices echo out in multitudes.

Sacrificial blood is poured onto the altar. It smells fresh. I see it's scarlet hue reflecting onto their eyes - they are no longer men, tainted by their allure of the forsaken and cursed.

I hear something gurgling underneath. Not with the voice of a human, but of something, a thing, a thing... and it screams, and it shakes the ground beneath me, and I hear it writhing like tentacles of a sky kraken.

Something thrashes against the halls - and the cultists don't even bother to fight. Some of them offer up their lives for the damned thing, and they are consumed for it.

I look up, and I see flesh, dead flesh, large enough to blot out the sun, with skin rotten like a corpse, still pulsing with life and writhing tentacles.

It is dead; yet it was never dying.

I see the cultists continuing to offer themselves up, some dragged by the neck, others parasitized through the veins, their voices and their blood curdling...

I leave before anyone, anything can take sight of me. I run, and run, and find anywhere I can warn the world of the horrors unleashed,

"Long dead god, not dead, alive."

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Credits:
dictator putski - Royal Armoury
Lyratulia - Sounds of War 2
Wellington Mcskellington - Suspendium Smelters
kelpy - Capybara Compendium
Stevenbert Gregley Pinefield - For being our lord and savior


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Do notice some drastic changes you may experience while playing the modpack;
- Strange weapon balance
- Autocannons at Tier 1
- Vanilla cannons and similar guns have extra ammo
- Alterations to Conquest gameplay
- You will begin the conquest without a starting ship/fortifications, carrying tons of gold instead, and so you must quickly make these fortifications yourself.
- Other things I can't seem to remember