Thread:ChazmanianDevil/@comment-26210095-20161030030912/@comment-26210095-20161030235808

So it was in the Year 3262 of the Second Age of the Sun-

The Tauredain were a great and mighty people. Many grand city-states of stone and gold dotted the great jungle. They were mostly a peaceful people, worshipping the trees and the mother-goddess Yirisana. None could have predicted the sudden rise of the warlord Amuzet the Golden. He came from a family of the warrior and noble caste, and he acquired a large following. Claiming he was a God-on-Earth, envoy of the Lord of Sacrifices, he preached that the Gods were unpleased with the ‘decadent’ and ‘sinful’ lives of the peaceful Tauredain. “One land, one king, one faith” was the war cry of his zealous warrior-fanatics. They spread through the jungle like wildfire, soon nations and cities were falling to the might of the so-called “Zaltec Empire”. In the space of only two years, in the grand palace of [capital city], Amuzet the Golden ascended the throne as Emperor of the Tauredain. Many, especially the lower classes, were fanatically loyal to the new warrior-king, but many nobles in the fringe of the jungle chafed under his harsh reign. Yet the mighty pyramids of gold and obsidian grew ever higher and higher, and human sacrifices to the [god of death, war, and blood] grew. Gold and silver was mined from the rich jungle, obsidian was gathered and shaped into beautiful weapons of death, sapphires and rubies began to flow from the great mines of the Zaltec. Soon, legend crept to the outside of the jungle of a fabled city of solid gold. As the Zaltecs grew in might and glory, they would make many enemies as the sons of subjugated tribes would be sent to be sacrifices to appease the gods. Many in the Empire turned against Amuzet and cried out for release, and the Emperor Amuzet spiraled deeper into madness…

Meanwhile, across the mighty Western Sea, a greater empire was building a large fleet to wage war against the Valar. The Numenoreans were a mighty people, but were slowly being corrupted by the king Ar-Pharzon and Sauron. Herendil was a mariner of Numenor, and on a voyage to Endore to see the Faithful of Pelargir, but his ship was blown wildly off course by a great storm. His ship was wrecked on the shore of the great jungle, sighted by the Tauredain watchtower. He was greeted as an honored guest and diplomat from a faraway land. He was showered with gifts, of ornate gold and gems. He returned with these to Numenor, and showed them to Ar-Pharzon. He did not know that the Numenorean King had turned to darkness and began listening to the lies of Sauron. Once Ar-Pharzon gazed upon the gold and opals pale, he was full of lust for wealth. And so, he sent the cruelest, most cunning and most evil man in all of Numenor to destroy the “pagans” and use their wealth “for the benefit of the higher race”: Hernando Diaz, the Conquistador of Numenor. He spared a great many ships from his Armament and sent them under the command of Hernando to conquer the savage peoples. Soon, the watchtowers of the Tauredain would catch a glimpse of “great ships larger then a Mumak”, “tall deer with no antlers”, and “men with armor and swords of impermeable silver”. Could the Tauredain, a people with no armor, using blades of obsidian, defeat the dreaded Numenoreans, who brought Sauron himself to his knees? Find out in… the Battle for the New World.