00:05I
00:06See you gather before me
00:08Hungry, terrified
00:11Clutching your babes to your breast
00:15Emperor Emhyr has marched his legions into our lands
00:19Laid siege to every fortress from here to the Blue Mountains
00:24Rabid and ravenous, he bites and bites away
00:28Men of the north
00:30You stand at the precipice
00:33Your kings have failed you, so now you turn to the gods
00:39And yet you do not plead
00:40You do not kneel to dust your heads with ash
00:46Instead you wail, why have the gods forsaken us?
00:51We must look into the trials we failed long ago
00:55So, in a time past, our world intertwined with another through an upheaval scholars call the conjunction of the spheres
01:06The gods allowed unholy forces to slip into our domain
01:12The offspring of that cataclysm was the nefarious force called magic
01:20Yet we did not banish it, instead studying the vile arcane for our own power and wealth
01:28And the monsters at our door
01:31The unholy relics of this conjunction
01:36The trolls, the corpse eaters, the werewolves
01:39Did we raise our swords against them?
01:42Or have we laid this burden on others?
01:45On so-called witches
01:47Witchers
01:49Stray children taught the ways of foul sorcery
01:52Their bodies mutated through blasphemous ritual
01:56Sent to fight monsters, though they could not distinguish good from evil
02:00The flicker of humanity long extinguished within them
02:07Yes, their numbers have dwindled through the years
02:10But a few still roam our lands
02:14Offering their bloody work for coin
02:17To this day they shame us with their very existence
02:21The north bleeds!
02:24Flogged by war!
02:26The battles are the gods' whip
02:28Justisement for our sins
02:30And let us not forget the terrors
02:33The scourges from beyond our world
02:35The wild hunt rides the sky
02:38With every full moon
02:40The dark raiders abduct our children into lands unknown
02:44Some say they herald a second conjunction
02:47Can we chart a course back into the light?
02:51Will we find the strength to banish the mages from our kingdoms?
02:56Unite around the warmth of the eternal fire?
03:01Nigh is the time of the sword and axe
03:05None will fight this war in our stead
03:08Nigh is the time of madness and disdain
03:12The game
03:13The game
03:13The game
03:14The game
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