A Cut Above The Rest

"And so you see," Alontor buried the blade into the mans neck and slowly slide it across, it didn't decapitate him, but it did spill all of his neck blood out in front of his family (you thought I was joking about that? oh no he really did this), "My associates and me are not messing around, we would really like your support in our future endeavors in Lork." The woman's face showed absolute terror, her two small children were crying. I was doing my best to try and be somewhere else, I knew that the ruling part of Lork was a bag of dicks, but slicing a dudes throat in front of his family and asking his widow to back your play? Kind of dickish too. The woman complied with our request, opened up her farm lands for some fighters to be stationed there, and thanked us for showing her the error of her ways.

We had been doing "meetings" like this across Lork. Sometimes they ended peacefully with the people agreeing to our demands, other times we killed entire families (yes even the children, have I mentioned I'm terrible? I'm terrible). It was a pretty orderly revolution, in a way I felt it was more like a weird political campaign than any kind of revolution (I mean at least when we deposed the Red Hand we didn't simply kill people in their homes, we fought battles! that as a matter of course killed people in their homes.)

Now I've told you Alontor could see the future, but I did not know this at this time he had that ability. It just always seemed like he knew despite being actively hunted for, that he would never be in any danger. At the time I just thought the guy had balls of steel and he felt he was completely untouchable (despite being near me, the guy who is entirely touchable, by everyone, everywhere), knowing now that he could with utmost authority know he was safe kind of makes him not appear as awesome. Well that and all the murders, but mostly that he could literally see the future of the actions he was taking a part in.

Anyway, this kind of activity went on for a couple of weeks, and then in one decisive battle we killed Lork's central government aided by all the horrible things we'd done to set them up. Alontor assumed control, tore down the wall, rejoined up with the Guard central government, and just in time too as the Guard was about to be under attack from a completely new and horrible threat... Almost like he could see the future of things and knew that if Lork stood alone it would be wiped out. Wait almost like, no he knew that, stupid future seeing weirdness.