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New Rose: A Short Story

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Our story takes place in a land of forests and fields, towns and villages, rolling hills and brooks. The old and powerful Church of New Rose, which ruled the lands for six centuries, aims to establish total control over her domains. The Dukes and Kings who ruled these lands sought to gain independence from the church's iron grasp. ___ was one such of these Dukes seeking to gain independence from the church. Being the most influential of the movement, the church sent private soldiers under the cover of darkness to assassinate ___. As the church's spies learned more of the scheming of the Dukes, the church made their decision to gather a force and assert their authority over their domains. Forming a huge army of ___, Druids, and mercenaries, the church …show more content…

Seeing the incoming army, ___ watched in horror as the church's army neared the bridge of ___. As if in perfect timing, the rough, tall, and wild men of the north charged out of hiding into the lines of ___, Druids, and mercenaries with a vengeful vigor. Crushing the churches lines, ___ sent out her soldiers and joined the fight as a united front. Together they plowed into the center formations where the high monks and clerics were and struck down ___, ninth of the monks. In quick succession, three more monks were struck down and the mercenaries began to loose their motivation and strength to fight. In a quick act of desperation, the only remaining monks gather what few clerics and able fighters are left and flee into the catacombs of the chapel in the holy city of ___. ___ then illegalizes every religious activity and orders for every chapel and temple to be demolished to wipe away every memory of the church. Many years of peace follow this bloody war, but deep in the catacombs of ___, ___ continues to secretly gather a force who eagerly awaits the order to charge above ground and resume the war of reinstating the church as a true power of the

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