The Doom Monarch's war began on schedule.
One month after the Mountain event ended, the announcement rang across the ocean a final time, brief and without ceremony.
[The Doom Monarch marches. His armies come for the four allied forces. The goal is extermination. There is no further reward for survival. There is only survival, or the end of the event.]
[Should you cross this hurdle, the Doom Monarch will be weakened for three months. A window in which a threat may post to him and his empire.]
Then the horizon to the north went dark, and the war came.
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The first ten days were survivable.
