(have finally switched MAN to ai)
Well, Man was born, looked to the west (huzzah, Man is in a corner…), rushed to the east, met the Machakan who swiftly struck a deal that honest Man took up and proved his downfall.
For the Machakan had sold half his claim to the Eriun, so that they both shared Man’s border.
To the west, Man was astonished when the Abyssian showed up on his doorstep. So much for being in a corner. Man, realising the imminent threat to the east, struck up eternal friendship with the fiery ones to avoid a war on two fronts.
The Machakan voided the nap, and simultaneously the spider and the Eriun struck. Man had prepared an army big on mortal strength, but lacking in magic. Facing the vast horde of the Machakan spiders, Man’s cavalry routed the right wing and collapsed his centre, destroying the machakan army and the unholy prophet.
But pride comes before a fall, and rather than sit upon his sweet victory, Man fell upon the Eriun army to deal a decisive blow to this axis of eastern evil.
The Eriun, strong in lightning, repelled Man’s attack and killed his weak and insipid pretender who had been schooled in all the wrong magic and had not spent his childhood outdoors.
Man needed help. Hearing of wars further to the east, he contacted the Ashdod and supplied them with lightning rings so that they, too, could hold back the Eriun. He summoned the Void to land to attack the Machakan.
All this came to pass, and yet Man could not defeat the Eriun.
Legends of the Carthaginians inspired Man - he slipped his army past the Eriun and attacked his heartland, heading for the capital. At the same time, his ally Ashdod, sieged the Eriun capital. But at the precise moment of victory, the Ashdod pulled back from the alliance to fight a war elsewhere.
Man had lost.
