EPISODE 1 : THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR

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The scene opens in The Great War, but unlike the Season 1 opening, it does not cut away. The battle rages on.

The camera moves in and begins following a Netharan in the action, and he witnesses the Nether king, Chronos, rally the army.

Just then, an Enderdragon flies overhead and kills the Wither nearby. The Wither falls to the ground dead. Chronos hurries over to the Wither, and puts his hand on it, saddened by its death.

The Enderdragon lands, and the Enderking, King Rendor, dismounts.

Enderblade against Netherblade, the two kings fight. Rendor gets the upper hand and knocks Chronos down.

The Netharan that the scene had initially been following runs out from the crowd towards Chronos, but stops as Chronos puts up a hand.

Chronos staggers back up as Rendor beats him down again. Rendor is about to kill Chronos when suddenly a blur of energy erupts between them and the Deathsinger appears. He quickly fights back Rendor and attacks the Enderdragon.

While they are confused, he picks up Chronos. As he turns to leave, the Enderdragon breathes fire onto his back, burning him despite his attempt at shielding himself with another Song. He quickly warps away to safety with Chronos, and now the Nether army closes in on Rendor, who mounts his dragon and flies up over the crowd, then swoops down and ignites a lot of the Nether army as well as some Voltaris.

The Deathsinger watches as some Voltaris burn, then looks up to see Rendor pointing his sword down at the Deathsinger threateningly, then flies off.

The Netharan hurries over to Chronos, and the scene fades to later. Voices can finally be heard, slowly fading in and sounding echoey and out of focus.

Chronos : I won’t have the rest of my people slaughtered fighting this meaningless war, Ingressus.

Deathsinger : We have an alliance, Chronos. If you break that agreement we will both perish. 

Chronos : We cannot defeat the combined strength of the Enderknights, the six kingdoms, and the Ardoni. We must retreat.

Suddenly a Pythus’ voice breaks in.

Pythus : If we retreat, you will bring shame upon our lineage and draw question upon your right to the crown.

Chronos considers it for a moment.

Chronos : I would rather save the lives of our people, and of you Pythus, and you Vulcannus…

Chronos addresses the viewer directly, and it shows the Netharans acknowledging. Pythus looks angry still, and grips his axe tightly.

Fades into the Nether. Vulcannus is alone in a throne room. He turns around again and sees Pythus confronting Chronos on the throne, a few Netharans and Wither skeletons behind him.

Suddenly Pythus stabs Chronos, and Vulcannus wakes from his dream abruptly.

Vulcannus : *gasps awake*

Vulcannus stops and looks around him. The music is quiet and slightly foreboding.

He gets out of bed and walks across the room. He passes a sleeping baby Ghast, who opens her eyes and looks up at Vulcannus passing.

Vulcannus walks out onto the balcony, and slides back revealing Crown Peak.
The city is full of lava, netherrack, and wither skeletons patrol the streets.

Scene moves around between various cities of Ardonia. All the capitals are in equally bad states (except Tartarus which isn’t shown.)

Shows some people being ushered through nether portals and being taken into the nether to work as slaves and mine for ores.

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