Conquest of the Horde

He didn't fight back. In the end, he couldn't even muster the strength to try. While the blade was still sawing through the skin of his neck, he couldn't find it in himself to stop it from happening. He knew what would happen and he knew that he was incapable of denying the fate that was about to befall him. There was no will and no power left in him.

It had pissed Koriel off, for some reason. Admittedly, he was curious to why. But he never really got the chance to ask.

Not that he would have. He wouldn't have expected an answer.

If he had one regret worth mentioning that consumed his mind in his last moments of life, it would be that he abandoned Arianna. While one couldn't really say he did it with malicious intent… It was still not fair. He should've been able to fight back, for her sake. For his own, for Koriel's sake…

Everyone's wise in hindsight. It's easy to criticize your own stupidity when the crime has already been committed. Mykeihn's crime?

Being such a hopeless wuss.


Darkness swallowed him. One would've imagined the embrace of death to be sweet, but… To be completely honest, it felt more like a cold shower. He was pummeled down into the abyss and struck against something cold.

And he sank.

Cold and tasteless water wrapped about his naked body and no amount of struggling could keep the water out of his lungs. His senses were revolting against him in total anarchy and irregularity. He couldn't taste. He couldn't see. But he could feel, and the sounds were so loud they were slowly overwhelming his mind. The insides of his ears thumped painfully as the sounds of his own, drowned screams echoed in the emptiness around him.

And the chains. Thick and heavy iron chains.

The cuffs bit into his skin. Their sharp edges slowly sawed through his flesh and sent jolts of pure pain through ever particle of his being. Kicking and struggling would only make the pain so much worse. It took him a while to finally realize that, but in the end… He stopped struggling. He had been thrown into a reality of cold and endless agony. There was no consolation in death.

It was an eternal journey through a bottomless ocean.

Despite being robbed of his sight in an eternal darkness, images played in the front of his mind. They projected in front of his mental eyes. And they tormented him. He saw Reigen. Her face, her eyes and the back of her head as she turned and left him with the ring in Dalaran. He saw Arianna. Her eyes, and the tears that rolled down her cheeks. That was the last thing he really saw before he went completely blind. He couldn't even remember Koriel. His words still rang inside his ears but he couldn't remember looking him in the eyes. Even casting a glance at him.

And it was so painful.

But there were no tears here. They wouldn't offer him comfort here. He couldn't even tell if he was crying, because the tears would immediately join with the ocean around him. For all he knew, this ocean was a product of his agony.

It slowly consumed him. The images repeated in front of his blind eyes for countless hours. Countless times. Time was lost very soon in this place, and any and all grasp of the previous events that brought him here soon released. He sank further into the depths with a smile on his paling lips, occasionally exchanged for the same cry of agony that he'd uttered when he first came here.

The cycle would repeat. Over and over again.

Until eventually, he opened his eyes again.


The light stung in his eyes. That was the first thing he really reacted to, though he would soon have other things consuming his mind and attention. His first reflex while waking up was to breathe, and he found that immediately to be impossible. Mykeihn widened his eyes and swung up to sit in the bed his body had been kept and desperately gripped to his throat, wheezing in weak attempts at breathing.

The crowd surrounding him would be forced to push him down against the matress again despite his struggling to pour water down his throat and forcably clean it of any coagulated blood. Poor Merica had to take the worst hits when he flailed his arms and legs about.

He could barely understand what was going on. If at all. All he could really remember was the pain in his chest and throat. In pure fear of dying again, he had tried to defend himself. Only to slip back into unconsciousness again when the Priests surrounding him sedated him. It was a warm embrace, this time. A welcome pause from the cold.

But... He would return there soon.

When he finally woke up again, he was greeted by Arianna. She smiled. He remembered that smile. Oh yes, he remembered it.

Indeed. He'd be back in no time.



Killer: Koriel

Resurrector(s): Jaerin, Merica and a handful of Silvermoon priests brought in by Arianna.

Temporary drawbacks:

1. Migraines: Severe, sometimes incapacitating migraines as a result of the beheading post-mortem. (Short-term.)
   
   
2. Reaction time: Due to the beheading post-mortem, the connections between brain and body have been severely damaged and will take time to completely mend while his body and brain re-establish their former cooperative relationship. As a result, his physical and mental reaction time will be significantly slowed and his reflexes won't be kicking in like before. (Short-term.)
   
   
3. Daydream: Until someone or something “wakes him up”, Mykeihn will be ‘stuck' in a kind of dream-like state and won't be in contact with reality. His reactions will be heavily based around not believing that whatever happens in his surroundings is part of the physical, or ‘real', reality. He will be, in short, distanced. (Depends. Lasts until self-retaliation is triggered.)
   
   
4. Hallucinations: Due to aforementioned daydreaming, it might occur that Mykeihn suffers hallucinations of various kinds to add to the difficulty of truly “waking him up”. The trauma connected with dying and coming back to life will have pushed his psyche into a recessive state which in turn results in a sort of ‘true' daydreaming. His hallucinations would essentially be his dreams surfacing to distort his waking reality. (Depends. Lasts until the daydreaming ceases.)
   
   
5. Throat issues: Mykeihn's throat was severed the moments before he died, and as a result of this he will have problems speaking for a time. His throat is easy to exhaust and speaking will be more of a chore than a necessity. His words are more likely to be a slur or rasp than truly comprehensible. His breathing will be strained and he might not be able to take in enough oxygen to perform physical tasks. (Short-term; Will last a few days to a week.)
   
   
6. Drowning: On occasion, as a part-hallucination, Mykeihn might suffer the sensation of drowning. This is purely mental and has nothing to do with any actual physical condition. (Long term.)
   
   
7. Heart issues: Next to his throat being severed and his head being removed, his heart was also run through by the blade of a sword. While not as prominent as his other drawbacks, his heart is still hypersensitive to stress. (Long-term.)

Permanent drawbacks:

1. Nightmares: The trauma connected with dying and returning to life is something that would spiritually drain anyone. It's a harsh experience and it will reflect in Mykeihn's psyche for the rest of his living days. His nightmares will possibly provoke physical reactions when he sleeps in case they are serious enough and he will, no doubt, be much more tired. Always.
   
   
2. Periodic apathy: Sort of a follow-up and combination of the daydreaming and the slowed reactions due to brain damage with the decapitation, once the “dreams” have ceased. It's a state of him, at times, simply phasing out of reality and being unreachable unless he's physically disturbed by being shaken (or punched!).
   
   
3. Shackles: A hallucination and projection of his mind that will continue to haunt him for the rest of his living days. Legs and feet shackled with heavy chains which may make him pause whatever he was doing and sometimes leave him completely incapacitated. (The chains are not real. I wish to stress that. They are simply a projection of his own mind and are only experienced by him alone.)

I'm aware this is probably pretty confusing. Only I understand what all the symbolism is in this. <.<