Empires of Ashes

Captain Raeven wrote:

Ket: "I will take many pages from his book when the throne is mine, but a painless execution will not be their reward, they will spill every name they know in the torturers chair, and then, the names they say will face the same."

id recommend a thengeli torturer they are simple but brutal flaying, joint snapping, branding, blood eagle you name it they can do it

Mako: a what?!
the monster sinks back below the surface, out of view for now, before resurfacing to swallow one of the thengul who fell in the water from the other ship whole

Trajan: well, there is a reason my family still holds so much favor with the senate, even after five hundred years. Alexios saved Dracia. Since then, the city's Invicti swear an oath of blood to never fall prey to corruption, and to publicly execute any found guilty of it, or who attempt to bribe them.

Ooc: kelthrovi tortures are not execution methods, the prisoner will survive, brands, removal of teeth, finger and toenails, then fingers and toes, the slow removal of skin... Need I go on?

Ket: *ironfaced* "some say a good King rules with the love and respect of his fellows, someday i aspire to, but fear will have to do in the short term"

Trajan: a means to an end?

OOC no need just saying the thengeli know a thing or two as well
IC helga: sea king huge fish thats armored from head to fin in harder then iron scales and can bite a whale in half we call it the king of fish. (several nets and harpoons are fired at it out of the many balista on each ship.)

Ket: "indeed, the detritus of our once proud nation must be cleared."

the fish dives, the ballistas having not penetrated deep enough to get a secure hold on it

Trajan nods

Ket: "do you know enough of me now?" *he has taken off all his upper body armour, revealing the bloodstained cream tunic beneath*

Trajan: how long have you been a soldier.

Ket: "since my fifteenth summer. I am 34 now, so I have been a soldier for nineteen years."

Trajan: impressive that you're alive.

Ket: "they do not all us immortals for nothing." *from the neckline of his tunic Trajan can see a large scar starting at his shoulder and cutting down into his chest and beyond*

Trajan: well, the original incarnation of the immortals was very different if I remember correctly. Called that because they recruited at the exact same rate they took losses I think?

Ket: "you know a lot about us. That was before we adopted our heavy armour. Now the myth is that we are in fact, invincible"

Trajan: Indeed. Was around five hundred and fifty years ago if i'm correct. In response to our conquest of the shogunate land north of the vein.

Ket: "they proved themselves well."

Trajan: aye, if the stories are true.

Ket: "there's usually a grain of truth to a story."

trajan nods

Ket: "is that all?"

Trajan: any questions of your own?

Ket: "hmmm... Not that I can think of."

Trajan: really? that is surprising

Ket: "unlike me, you're quite the public figure."

Trajan: My personal life isn't as far as I'm aware.

Ket: "why is your personal life of interest to me?"

Trajan: the personal life makes the personality. the personality, makes the man.

Ket: "hm. My personal life..."

Ket: *he looks deep in thought* "besides being a soldier."

Trajan pours himself some wine

Ket: "what would you consider as your private life?"

Trajan:...I'd assume your non military life

Ket: *sighs thoughtfully* "before I was fifteen? I do not see how that defines me now." *hes obviously confused to the concept*

Trajan: simple. one's mind is at its most....impressionable before that age. what one learns, and experiences there, is what shapes who you are.

Trajan: there is also the fact i assumed you had some kind of leave.

Ket: "leave? Oh you mean when the men make free of a towns entertainments for a night, I don't tend to... Engage. With that. A quiet cup of wine is more to my tastes."

Trajan:...a night??

Ket: "yes, immortals don't have families to return to, what would be do with an extended period of free time?"

*what would we do

OOC: Masturbate furiously?

Ooc: you don't need time off to masturbate furiously
Plus, they get paid, and whores exist

OOC herrooo
IC Trajan:...spend time not killing/dieing?

Ket: "we spend most of our time not killing or dying. Logistics is the main part of warfare."

Trajan: and those wars are mostly raiding aren't they? near constant, if what i've heard is to be beleived, to fuel the slave machine that is kelthro?

Ket: "the immortals are not used on slave raids, even if we were commanded to, we would not. Overkill, as you in the north would say."

Trajan: then what do you do?

Ket: "military targets, encampments that fall too close to our borders"

Trajan: ah of course.

Ket: *shrugs* "we are the hammer of kelthro. I would have thought by now any disappearance of an encampment would be attributed to us."

Trajan: so you don't...go home? Go out, watch a show, go hunting, get drunk with friends....none of that?