00:07In Blackguards 2, you take on the role of Cassia of Tenus.
00:11As Cassia Corapia, with her face hidden behind a spider mask,
00:15she is on a quest to conquer the city of Mengbilla and its lands.
00:19But you are the one to decide how merciful or cruel she will be,
00:23both to her enemies as well as her followers.
00:26But who is this Cassia?
00:28And what drives her to start this war?
00:30She was born a noble daughter from a good family.
00:33In Mengbilla she was hailed as the most beautiful woman of the city-state,
00:37kind and friendly to everyone.
00:39This made her the perfect trophy for slave trader and arena master Marwan,
00:44who married her as a symbol of his growing status.
00:47But he cast her out.
00:49She disappeared for years, while he won the loyalty of her friends
00:53and finally seized the throne of Mengbilla.
00:55Now she has returned, but she is so horribly disfigured
00:58that she hides her face behind a mask.
01:01Her kind nature has also been warped,
01:03and she is driven by a ruthless lust for power and a will to rule.
01:07In those lost years she spent wandering a seemingly endless labyrinth,
01:12locked away with criminals, undead, and deadly spiders,
01:15she probably lost her mind.
01:17But she also found something that gave her a new drive.
01:21It's called The Good Ruler, by someone called Dexter Nemrod.
01:25Sounds boring.
01:26Better than the stupid chit-chat of a mutt.
01:29Yeah.
01:29A treatise on sovereignty by Dexter Nemrod.
01:33Nemrod was both famous and infamous as leader of the secret information agency
01:38of the Midden Realm and almost omniscient advisor to its emperors.
01:43His treatise on the art of ruling accompanied Cassia on her long imprisonment
01:47and his harsh views on politics guide her on her quest for power.
01:52As changed and maybe mad as she may be,
01:55she still manages to gather followers around her.
01:58She wants the gladiators by her side
02:00who bade the unbeatable nine hordes in Marwan's arena.
02:04They are the only ones she knows who ever stood up to Marwan and won.
02:08To her, they are a symbol of her own fight,
02:11and so she sets out to find them and to persuade,
02:14cajole or bribe them into aiding her.
02:17That witch wants my gold.
02:19Well, to be fair, she wants her gold.
02:22She's somehow found out.
02:24Never mind.
02:25With help from a few loyal servants from her former life as a noble lady of Mangbilla,
02:30she claims control over a legion of feared mercenaries.
02:34Their ruthless leader even reveres her as chosen of his god.
02:38She commands spies, and her small army destabilizes Marwan's throne,
02:42always on the move between battles.
02:44The fact that her campaign to overthrow her husband will turn friends into enemies
02:48will not stop her.
02:50That many think that she has lost her mind cannot deter her.
02:53That her strength and her troops are not enough to take on a whole emirate and its ruler
02:57will not make her stop.
02:59Cassia has the potential to turn into a great warrior,
03:02or to make her mark on the battlefield in a different way.
03:05How she evolves after starting out as an outcast without weapons, but with a strong will,
03:11lies completely in your hands.
03:13Cassia also has both the opportunity to take bloody revenge on everyone who ever may have
03:18slighted her, or to forgive them.
03:20She can rile up her followers to take up arms against each other, or try to be a friend to
03:24them.
03:25Whether her quest for revenge will turn her into a monster or a saint is your decision.
03:31But how much did Cassia change?
03:34What are the connections between her, Marwan, and her mute sister?
03:38Why do the mercenaries revere her?
03:40You will have to find the answers to these questions by yourself, in her campaign on Black
03:44Arts 2.
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