CampaignDialogue:TFoW
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CampaignDialog:TFoW
This is a transcription of all dialogue from The Fall of Wesnoth add-on. It is meant as a resource for Wesnoth writers. If you don't want spoilers, leave this page now. Note: This Page will be updated as new scenarios are released.
Part 1
Scenario 1: And so it begins...
Story Text
It has been many long years now since the Kingdom of Wesnoth, the first kingdom of men in this part of the world, ceased to be its own realm.
I am older now, and I may soon take my leave of this mortal realm. I shall not be sorry to rest at last, for life in this world can be hard and cruel, yet I would not depart without leaving some record of my times, and of the events that lead to the Fall of Wesnoth.
History is forgotten too easily by those who lived through it, and it fades all the faster when those who lived it are no more. I write this account in the hope that those who come after will gain some understanding of their past, and with some flicker of vanity, I hope that they will understand my actions, and not, perhaps, judge me too harshly...
Between 673 and 955 YW, the Kingdom was wracked by famine and civil wars, as one petty warlord fought another to possess the crown, weakening the realm while the Northern Alliance and the orcs under Kapou'e rose to become the preeminent powers on the continent.
The last of the tyrants was named King Rurcyn. It was he who signed the pact with the orcs and foul undead, in order to ensure his own power over Wesnoth. Rejecting this alliance, my father King Haldar and my mother Queen Allora led a revolt and, with the backing of the elves of the Grey Woods, gained the throne of Wesnoth.
They renounced the pact with the orcs and undead, and for a time the Kingdom regained some of its properity. But the old King's allies were angered what they saw as a betrayal, and Wesnoth lacked the men or resources to defend its own borders.
In the year 975 YW, orcish raids again increased along the northwestern border of Wesnoth. Such raids were common since Haldar renounced the treaty with the orcs, but now they were larger, more coordinated.
The few remaining villages in the area, poor and largely defenseless, relied on only a handful of royal troops to protect them.
In the small village of Alben east of the fords of Abez, Sergeant Gwadoc of the Wesnothan army musters the villagers to repel a raid, while a messenger rides desperately to bring help from the forts at Abez.
Introductory Dialog
Liryn: Sir. The orcs are sending more raiders across the fords. The villagers have gathered and await your command.
Gwadoc: Arm the villagers and prepare to defend the fords. We have to hold them until Abez can send reinforcements.
Badush: The human traitors are few and ill-prepared. Take them by storm and bring me their captain's head. Put the men in chains and the women and children to the sword. Attack!
Gwadoc: The peasants are ill-prepared to face these brutes, my friend.
(only appears if playing on easy)Liryn: You are right. If they are to survive, they must stand shoulder to shoulder, and they must hold their ranks and surround them to take them down.
Turn 15
Badush: The cursed humans fight better than expected.
Gwadoc: Our messenger should have arrived by now, but I don't know how much longer we can hold.
Liryn: Stand and fight, you weak-kneed gaggle of scarecrows! Fight for your children's lives!
Time Over
Gwadoc: Look! Reinforcements have arrived!
Liryn: Those aren't just any reinforcements! That is The Prince's personal battalion!
Badush: Fall back! We will pay them for this later.
(Reinforcements arrive at this point) Prince Murdoch: After them! Drive them back from the fords!
Death Dialog
Gwadoc
Gwadoc: No. I must...
Liryn: Fall back! Head to the forest! Tell the women and children to flee!
Badush: After them! Kill them all!
Liryn
Liryn: Ugh...
Gwadoc: No! Without him how will we possibly survive?
Badush
Badush: Is... it is finished? I shall be...
(Reinforcements arrive at this point) Prince Murdoch: Excellent! It appears our help was not needed after all.