Post by Dreyco on Jun 21, 2008 11:46:52 GMT -8
CHOTTAL SATHIR: THE LAST OF THE LINE
At the time of his death, Ganak might have mated several times and produced many heirs. Only one, though, was of age to take the throne--and barely, at that.
The coronation was a brief and joyless ceremony, and messengers from the Field of Bone arrived soon after to warn Chottal that the remaining Dragons were headed to Sebilis to make a final strike.
There were far too few fighting Iksar remaining in Sebilis, but Chottal gathered whom he could: guards, wounded soldiers, and civilians with arms. The Dragons cut through the first line of defense with ease, and much of the city was damaged before the ragged Imperial forces finally forced the Dragons to retreat.
Only in the aftermath did the Sebilisian military realize that the dragons had only one real target in their raid: the Imperial Palace. It was crushed utterly, and the heirs of Ganak were lost with it.
The body of Chottal was recovered from the wreckage, and entombed within the crypt of the Emperors--the first King of Sebilis to actually leave a body to bury. The Sathir dynasty, too, was buried, and Sebilis placed its hope in a new form of rule.
At the time of his death, Ganak might have mated several times and produced many heirs. Only one, though, was of age to take the throne--and barely, at that.
The coronation was a brief and joyless ceremony, and messengers from the Field of Bone arrived soon after to warn Chottal that the remaining Dragons were headed to Sebilis to make a final strike.
There were far too few fighting Iksar remaining in Sebilis, but Chottal gathered whom he could: guards, wounded soldiers, and civilians with arms. The Dragons cut through the first line of defense with ease, and much of the city was damaged before the ragged Imperial forces finally forced the Dragons to retreat.
Only in the aftermath did the Sebilisian military realize that the dragons had only one real target in their raid: the Imperial Palace. It was crushed utterly, and the heirs of Ganak were lost with it.
The body of Chottal was recovered from the wreckage, and entombed within the crypt of the Emperors--the first King of Sebilis to actually leave a body to bury. The Sathir dynasty, too, was buried, and Sebilis placed its hope in a new form of rule.
