In the far north, beyond the Hagues River and its watchful fortress named the Haguesfort, beyond the nomadic tribes that called the frozen tundra home, beyond the northern mountains eternally caked in ice and snow, a creature stirred. The creature had no name that humans could pronounce, though it had a name. To humans this creature was known as a Krai’kesh. This creature, in human terms, would have been considered the captain of the crashed ship. Long had this creature and his brethren slumbered beneath the snow and ice, but something had changed. The creature felt a disturbance to the south. One of his brethren, his minions, had been slain. He let out a shrill yell and felt his brothers of the mind begin to stir. They would go south and devour the world in the name of the Krai’kesh Empire.
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