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"You did your duty. You united the querulous kings and leaders, lead the war, fought with their forces. You lived and died by the strategies and battlefield logic, survived the magic and steel, the madness and the bloodlust until the adrenaline crystalized in your bones and battle was the burden you wished would end, either you it or you by it.
And as it so happens, you manage both. Your men will live to fight another day, and you will not.
Your hand, the dark gauntlet dirty from battle, falls from sight. Your heart, deprived of blood to pump, sears one last starburst of pain over your spent mind, and you allow yourself one last hope:Maybe your mage will have waited for you, after all these years."