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Hundreds of miles to the south, the moon turned blood red and a fierce and terrible storm raged for seven days across southern Barbary. Shuttered against the howling wind and rain, in a plush chamber of Valhalla - the Royal Palace - Titania Ossa, Queen of the Barbarians, gave birth to a robust baby boy with cream-blond hair and eyes paler than the midsummer sky; a hearty little galoot who already had mischief written all over his rosy cheeks.

Gothia tried to will himself closer to this infant, tried to understand who he was and what part he would play in the great game of kings and realms and warriors raging across Xanadu, for Gothia knew there was something profoundly important about him, something which would affect not only Gothia’s own life, but the fates of all the people of the world: he was what the warlocks called the Destined. Gothia heard the names Prince Ragnar of the Royal House of Ossa, and Falken, Falken, Falken…

The vision blurred, and then Gothia saw another baby; a boy with black hair and fierce golden-brown eyes, which made Gothia think at once of his own reflection. The golden-eyed infant was also with the Queen, but somehow Gothia knew that he was not truly her son…

Adopted, came unbidden to his thoughts. Black Knight, Slayer, King of the Knight. World Emperor.

Uther von Barbarossa.





Gothia’s consciousness was snatched away from the waterfront palace and blown on the wind across the icy peaks of the Dragon’s Back Mountains, out onto the vast white tundra, where he saw the lonely column of sacrifices being marched first northward and then far away towards the East.

Ordinarily not even a strong man could have hoped to survive the journey across the frozen wastes of the northern tundra and the cracked and broken plain of Gehenna, let alone these starved and tortured villagers, but the souldead damned forced the sacrifices to smoke molot - the black weed of Gehenna - and the smoke filled them with the strength of madness, allowed them to push beyond the normal limits of human stamina and keep on marching, and not fall down in weakness and despair when their fingers and toes dropped off from frostbite.

The molot also numbed their hearts so that they gladly consumed the flesh of their friends and family who had faltered and could march no further. It ruined their bodies and drove them insane, but that did not matter, not any more - all that mattered was that their earthly vessels carried their blood all the way to Molothsothboloth, the Place of Endings, the end of earthly journeys, there to pour it out as an agonised sacrifice to the Lord of Hell.

Through all of the days and most of the nights they marched, taking only two to three hours’ sleep, although one of the girls had not even that, for the sabre-saw centaur raped her every night, and she had no rest. Before this journey began she had been a beautiful Barbary blonde, soon to marry a young hunter who was the best archer in the village. Her fiancé had begun this journey with her, after being wounded in battle and captured by a gang of goblins. Weak from sorrow and shame, he had listened to the screams of his beloved every night as she became the plaything of this creature. Then after a few nights the screaming had stopped, and there was only sobbing, and a few nights after that, the sobbing stopped too, and the next day the young girl’s hair was no longer blonde, but ash-grey, and her once-shining eyes were glassed-over like those of a hooked fish in her pentagram-carved face.

Her fiancé had died soon afterwards, as much from a broken heart as from his festering scimitar wounds, and the girl had eaten the sawed-up pieces of him, chewing slowly, with no expression on her souldead face. Soon she too would become meat for the others, for she had become a grey old crone of twenty, ruined by abuse and toxic smoke, and, more than anything else, by the death of hope, which lay cold and rotten in an unmarked grave deep in her old-young heart. She would not last the final 666-mile journey across the Realm of Eternal Night to Molothsothboloth. The sabre-saw centaur would have to find another plaything. He would.

All this Gothia witnessed.



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