Many months ago I took a great maul to the head and was in and out of consciousness. I would have brief moments of lucidity where I would find myself awaking in unfamiliar places, sometimes in snowy lands, or in the middle of the desert or other places. I had some dreams during my long periods of unconsciousness, the one I remember most vividly involved ninjas attacking a snowy village.
Finally I came to my senses for good and took stock of my situation; the glorious republic I had fought for was gone, the friendly peoples of the north were gone; my friends of Veluca were no longer a proud and mighty kingdom and were instead struggling to survive against the barbarian hordes who had invaded the north. The treacherous, honourless, cowardly barbarians of the steppes had spread their influence and brought death and poverty to the northern lands. Some folk talked about hordes of wacky speaking southern devils having pillaged their way through the north as well. Among this disaster there was also the familiar group of peace loving hippies who had taken to squatting around Reyvadin, even these peaceful folk had been forced into war as they sought to fight off the oncoming barbarians.
I was unsure what to do, there was no cause worth fighting for, so instead I chose to go back to my Pirate ways; first I decided to follow the vision I had seen and to gather up a squad of elite ninjas, I found some homeless people who wore black clothes that swore they were ninjas. They had no weapons that I could see but they assured me that they had mystical swords capable of slaying dragons; I was skeptical about these claims so I took my new comrades to the desert in the hopes of looting old battlefields for equipment. While in the desert I came across some drunk vikings who were forlornly trying to row their raiding boats across seas of sand. I quickly convinced these vikings that I could find them a good battle with good pillaging and a good death. And so, a band of unruly vikings and some homeless ninjas followed a Pirate to war against the vilest barbarians of Calradia.
tl;dr EAT PAIN
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