The Dark Alliance

My Lord Commander of the Imperial Army,

I have disturbing news to report. There is a new enemy that threatens the Empire. They call themselves the Dark Alliance.

One of my Legion's patrols brought me the news. Ulveblod led a routine training patrol. They came to a clearing filled with fetid corpses. Cautiously, they investigated. Suddenly, a figure emerged from the shadows. Dressed in black with black armor, his face was skeletal. A death knight!

Mocking the Legion, the death knight stated that the dark elves were angry at our thwarting their plans. They have formed a Dark Alliance to destroy the Legion and the Empire. With that, the knight commanded his minions to rise. The corpses reanimated and attacked our patrol!

It was a short, sharp battle. Our forces were severely outnumbered and their blades did little damage to the enemy. How do you kill what is already dead? The patrol fought valiantly, but ultimately succumbed to superior numbers. Soon, only Ulveblod remained.

The horde surrounded Ulveblod, striking repeatedly until he fell. The death knight approached, grabbed Ulveblod and pulled him to his feet. The knight spoke to the wounded Ulveblod, warning him that the Dark Alliance was coming. Then the ghastly warrior and his minions melted into the shadows.

Ulveblod managed to stumble back to camp. I sent another force to retrieve the fallen. Through the efforts of our gifted healers have revived them all.

We are now readying ourselves for battle. We await further orders.

By my hand and seal,

Comes Elias Artocopus

Commander of the Chimera Legion

Servant of the Eternal Aurelian Empire

GAME NOTES

I ran a short scenario as an introduction to the season. Next week, the campaign begins in earnest.

I messed up the teams, accidentally stealing someone from the Legion side. As a result, they were outnumbered 6-3. Apologies to the legionaries for that slipup. On the plus side, I think this scenario did an effective job of setting the stage for the new season.

We also had another new player. Welcome Chris!

By the way, here is the original photo of me as the death knight. I used Chat GPT to jazz it up.