Legion of Everblight

The 'evil' faction of Hordes, the Legion of Everblight can be summed up as an army of evil dragon xenomorphs which move at turbo speed and hit like trucks. There is more to that story so let's elaborate.

History of a dragon

The Legion was created by Everblight, one of the Dragon children of Lord Toruk the Dragonfather, the big bad bastard of the warmachine setting. Toruk created his children from pieces of his own crystal heart as he desired minions to help him conquer the world but the children said f u dad and rebelled, ousting their father out before falling on each other in a dust cloud of punches and ouches.

Toruk however is a crafty old lizard and over time he took out his children one by one. An interesting thing about this setting's dragons is destroying their body is not the end for them; their true being is the crystal hearts their possess, which if consumed by another dragon adds to their own and increased their power greatly.

Everblight lost his body in a battle with a bunch of elves but did not regrow it straight away as other dragons would do. No, he was not as powerful as other dragons but was quite intelligent, which made him even more deadly. He experimented and learned to control his blight, a corruption that all dragons give off. Hitching a ride in a wandering ogre who became his favoured puppet, Everblight set about a truly evil plan to build up his power anew.

Making his own set of Dark Elves and forging an army

A dragon's blight can bind other creatures to itself, make them it's pawns, and Everblight had big plans using such a tactic. He poisoned the drinking wells of a nation of northern elves with his blight, the taint making them trying grey skinned, grow horns and lose all sense of humour, becoming borg drones without the mind sharing the zany metal. He nearly got to munch on their comatose god as well but his remaining priests spirited him away....oh well a small thorn in the side really.

With an army of mortal minions secured Everblight turned to creating his spawn, draconian creatures forged from his own blood. These looked like creatures but were not really, lacking souls and being nothing more then a moving mass of tooth and claw. Yes they are pretty much alien xenomorphs but come in a variety of funky shapes and sizes.

It was here that Everblight showed his mad scientist side, as he used the bodies of the dead as material to create his spawn and experimented with the Elves and their bodies to make 'ideal' hybrids of spawn and mortal. Just killed a human? Put his body in our cooking pot and bam, new spawn minion. Your elf husband died honouring our dragon father? Then he can serve once again, in the pot he goes! In a way Everblight is the ultimate recycler, nothing wasted! You give up your lovely, perfect hot female elf body for Lord Everblight? Then feel pleased to die birthing the ultimate spawn horror! (no, seriously....that last part is canon).

What is the Legion up to now?

Well currently the Legion is making it's way southwards, chomping on anything that gets in it's path. They found another dragon, severly weakened and Everblight's ogre vessel was able to consume the crystal heart of that dragon, vastly increasing Everlight's power. Fighting all the other factions of the game, Everblight presents a unique threat to the safety of the world, although it remains to be seen if the Dragonfather will allow Everblight to continue to exist for much longer....

See also

Hordes/Tactics/Legion of Everblight