Valence armament/saved posts
Topic: Duskruin Arena
Message #: 14084
Author: GS4-KENSTROM
Date: 1/18/2022
Subject: Duskruin Teaser - Beyond Barriers
No matter the world, it always had fools.
Within moments of his arrival, the giants came. They towered over him like ancient trees, some even gnarled and bent like the blood oaks of the Deadfall itself. Their faces were grotesque at best, huge foreheads, large noses, small brains. Their weapons were crafted out of the very rock beneath his feet. Undoubtedly, he would feed that very earth with their corpses, letting the ground drink of their blood.
The first giant howled, then shouted a few commands that sounded like he was grinding sand between his teeth. The harrower was no stranger to their kind, but the sound of them speaking would never stop irritating him. He narrowed his marigold eyes and motioned with two fingers, daring the enemy to engage.
The behemoths charged, quickly crossing the distance, and roared into battle. The dark elf raised one hand as ribbons of ethereal bluish-green light burned into existence, swirling around his hand rapidly before forming into a deep black rune-etched sword. Soon coils of the same light burst out of the surroundings and twisted about his form, spinning chaotically until they shaped into some deep black leathers.
The lights did not slow the giants’ approach and the first two swung wide, bringing great stone hammers down towards the harrower. Several archaic sigils flashed along the dark elf’s armor and gnarled ethereal vines erupted form his body, lashing out at the two giants like glowing coils. Streams of yellow-white and purple-black energy ripped through the monster’s bodies, disintegrating their flesh, and burrowing through their bodies. He easily stepped aside as their lifeless, fragmented corpses fell with a thud.
The other giants began to circle him, each one more cautious now than before. But Ersix Severus showed them no mercy. He sliced through the air with his blade, the very sky darkening like a bruise before ripping open into a wide gash. A torrent of misty shadows spilled out of the hazy fissure, enveloping the head of two giants in a nebulous sphere of shadows. They bellowed in response, clawing at the darkness around their faces. He swung again, further serrating the skies as a curtain of powerful winds broke through the rifts, colliding with the blinded giants and slamming them to the ground.
Another giant rushed in, screaming with rage. The dark elf spun fluidly and with one word his blade crackled like shifting ice and the metal faded to a frosty opaque hue. Barbs of black ice burst out of the air, sinking into the monster’s flesh like venomous fangs. The creature’s legs froze, encapsulated in ice and stopping his charge. The harrower swung fast with his blade, tearing a deep gash into the giant’s stomach. As the metal bit flesh, it sparked with power and curls of bluish-green light struck the giant, then another stream of bluish-grey light, then two more powerful blasts of energy and the giant fell face to the dirt.
A frothing trio of giants pressed in, caution to the wind, all senses lost to the blood lust running through their veins. Ersix danced between them, dodging their heavy strikes, slipping away just mere seconds before their weapons hit. A rune flashed along his armor and the dark elf’s body began to blink in and out of existence as he continued his whirling, while the sky above bled to a citrine glow. The giants persisted, their stone hammers passing through the dark elf as he moved between worlds.
He tired of the game. The cat no longer wished to toy with the mice. The harrower’s body solidified for just a moment before it collapsed into a swirl of ethereal mist, where it swirled away before the dark elf reformed behind one of the giants. His blades tore across the giant’s legs, sending him lumbering to the side before another clean strike cut through its thick neck and sent its lumpy head rolling away.
The remaining two giants stood, spending the last few seconds of their life debating between fighting or fleeing. Ersix Severus the Harrower finally smiled and touched a rune upon his armor. Ethereal slits breached the air around him as humid winds stirred forth. From out of the planar fissures came dozens of razor-sharp verlok feathers, ripping into the world and launching towards the giants. The deadly volley tore into the monsters, flaying their flesh as they tried to scramble away, one falling right after the next in a bloody onslaught.
The harrower’s armor melted off his form like heated wax, quickly dissipating into the air as he stepped over the corpses, one by one, continuing his journey beyond barriers.
I’m happy to announce a new shop coming to Duskruin in February! It is called Beyond Barriers and it will sell the all-new Valence Weapons and Valence Armor! Each will have several abilities (only some of them showcased in the teaser above). There will also be some set abilities when using both as well! I will release more details as we get closer to the event! I would like to give a giant-sized shoutout to GM Mestys who without his coding ninja abilities could not have made these happen!
Go forth and conquer…worlds.
-GM Kenstrom-
Waylayer of Wehnimer's Landing