The Eulogy

Transcribed speech made by Emperor Aurelius Scarro to all members of The Senate in an emergency session on Seshersday 3rd Frostwane 3030-4A. Contents should be included in all inksheet publications from Tyrsday 5th Frostwane until Tyrsday 11th Frostwane.

Friends, citizens, subjects. I come before you all this day with words of grief, of sacrifice and of heroism beyond recompense. It came to my attention 2 days past that on 29th Deepfrost, a threat of catastrophic magnitude was discovered under the peaceful streets of Dolrath. The gods named them Nightwalkers, creatures of primordial creation, a remnant of the Second Primordial War that all had thought dead and forgotten. One creature, that if left unchallenged, could have left the city of Dolrath and its people as nothing more than fire and ash.

Whilst we sat in the capital, ignorant and oblivious to this threat, a small group of men and women of our empire discovered the monster and confronted it at once, knowing the death it could bring should it rise to the surface. These heroes thought nothing of their own lives, of their own safety or their own risk, instead committing themselves to the protection of our great empire, no matter the cost.

We should rejoice this day that these heroes were successful in destroying the Nightwalker within our midst, and commemorate that the cost of their victory was the lives they lived.

I call upon each and every one of you to remember their names.

Ser Gorlock - Knight of The Empire and veteran of the Imperial Legion. He leaves behind a loving family in the deserts of Yydraan, and the Lady Serena Mari, to whom he had pledged service to.

Bibi Starlight - Talented and gifted graduate of the Imperial Academy for Music & Entertainment. She leaves behind a grieving family in the southern region of the Coastal Protectorate.