(General POV)
Location Warhammer Old World-Kislev,
Northern Oblast: Edge of the Corrupted Tzeentchian Lands of the Dark Legion, Battlefield; Dark Legion vs. Kislev
The Ice Queen, the Tzarina Katarina managed to recognize her forces, and was personally leading the charge against the Dark Legion.
Already her forces have suffered some considerable loses, which includes basically the Great Orthodoxy, with Kostaltyn slain most of the patriarchs have fled while the rest remain to avenge the death of their Supreme Patriarch.
While this was an unexpected and deep blow, Katarina's morale wasn't broken, instead her fury was ignited.
Sensing this growth in will, magic, determination and various more emotions, has alarted the Warp Gods, within the avatar, Ixion Daemonhart, seems to them that the soo called Ice Queen of Kislev was finally ready to face destiny.
Tzeentch instructed Ixion to proceed, at that movement that the avatar was made to move, several kislevite warriors with various weapons came rushing at the Arcane Monarch, Khorne and Laharl just suggested to their younger brother, that he should deal with these weaklings quickly, and face a more worthy challenger like the Tzarina.
The Changer fully agreed with his older brothers, no wanting to waste more time, Tzeentch decided to end this small encounter with one of his spell, the [Infernal Gateway] spell to be specific.
Channeling power from the Winds of Magic, to harness the Lore of Tzeentch, as a surge of blues, were forming tzeentchian runes around the avatar's form and the air around him, seeing this immediately made the Kislevites on edge and nervous.
They rushed in a quicker pace to reach Ixion, and stop him, before he unleashes whatever matter of eldritch horrors upon them.
But the Scheming God, saw through this pitiful attempt to stop him, so in response he focused his psychic ability to keep these fools away from him, as he is casting his dark sorcery.
A huge tear into reality tore through the air, the surging corruptive, eldritch powers of Change and Mutation pouring out the indigo rift, as the rift expanded and started to form into a blue, electric blue, light blue, and indigo colored eye was formed, covered in blue and pink flame with swaying tentacles of arcane energies.
This magic made eyeball, looked around iraticly before stopping gazing upon the Kislevites, as they were emanating fear and nervousness, this [Infernal Gateway], with a simple mental command from Tzeentch/Ixion the eye unleashed it eldritch fury on his victims.
Tzeentchian energy surge fort and immediately wrought it horrific unknown horror, onto these men and women.
They felt as they were burning, melting, freezing, and twisting in agony!!!
These kislevites couldn't even scream, cause the constanly changing pains, was coursing through them.
One of them started melt, as his flesh, muscle, fat, and more was liquidating, and slugging through his armor, another started to mutate too fast and radically another face, a extra claw, bloating muscles, useless wing, multiple eyes and maws, his mind and body couldn't handle chaotic mutation and perished.
This and more happened to these poor souls, pleasing the Changer, as he commanded Ixion to leave these "corpses" to their final fate, he has a greater target to track and kill...
Yuri and Naryska were still fighting each other, with the famed Golden Knight being the more damaged of the two combatants.
Having just been hit by a [Dark Bolt] at point-blank range, now they clashing blades again, with Naryska more cautious than before.
As she used her [Ursun's Claw] to slash Yuri across the belly, but again the Traitor Prince used his tail to smack Naryska and thus avoid extensive damage to himself.
But still the magic that courses through [Ursun's Claw] was dangerous, and the Godslayer couldn't afford to toy with his foe any longer, less he end up defeated and banished back to the realms of Chaos, that shame and his oath bonding him to Lord Daemonhart, his punishment will not be swift.
Rising his guard, Yuri watched Naryska closely, as she started to move towards the right and he stomped to left, as the two enemies circled each other, waiting for the right moment to charge and attack the other, quite a death duel between them...
Naryska showing some signs of fatigue and injuries, while her hated enemy only has a few slashes on his vile, daemonic body.
She was observing every single movement of her opponent, a short distance open between them as they continue to circle each other, the sounds of them crunching and shifting through the snow, along with howling frigid winds, blowing around them.
Then Yuri growling stopped moving, folding his wings closely onto his body, as his massive claw was being covered in flames, Naryska knew immediately that her opponent was about to attack her with magic again, and as she suspected Yuri stretched out his massive claw at her, and unleashed a wide, and powerful stream of hellish fire. [Burning Stream]
Naryska rolled to the side as the magical flames, melted snow and burn the ground beside her, and seeing her dodge Yuri moved his left arm to redirect his flames, and thus Naryska was forced to run from the fire that Yuri was attacking her with.
Yuri smiled as he was chasing the Golden Knight with his [Burning Stream] spell, that threaten to reduce her to nothing but ash.
The more she ran, the more she wasted her strength and energy, and eventually his hellish flames will catch and consume her.
At the sametime Naryska was having the same thoughts as Yuri, the more she ran the greatest the inevitable end was closing in upon her, so instead of running away...she changed her direction to run towards Yuri, in a closing circular way.
But she needed to have enough energy to accomplish this bold move, should she falter or lose speed, she'll be at the mercy of the Godslayer's flames, every step she got closer and closer to the Traitor Prince...a shake that Yuri, already realized Naryska's ploy.
So Yuri responded by spreading his wings and with a powerful and mighty flap, took flight completely ruining Naryska's plan, and adding more danger to the situation, as now Yuri can continue his magical assault from a more safer distance, and also further enjoy this game of cat and mouse, he has with the soo called heroine of the Ice Court.
As this duel was still happening, Tzarina Katarina, was cutting through a number of mixed Chaos daemons, and warriors in her and her force's way.
She even took down some vile, Chaos beastmen with a large, sharp ice projectile, slicing and impaling through those beasts, and those unfortunate enough to evade her initial attack fell to her [Frost Fang], her long, rapid like ice rapier, cut and froze all struck down by its icy edge.
As another gor came to face the Tzarina, she stabbed him through the skull and her blade's magic immediately freeze solid the skull of the dead beastman, in one motion of her arm, she freed her [Frost Fang] and in thr process cause the frozen skull to shatter.
All around her, her warriors were rallying and fighting back, finally there was a good chance that at long last, the forces of the Motherland were starting to gain ground and fight back.
Now khornate and tzeentchian daemons were coming to attack them, with bloodletters, hell wraths, flesh hounds, decarabias, horrors, and hell prides making their way to them, Katarina's eyes glowed with great power.
The cold winds kicked up, and howled around the tzarina, as her maidens and witches of ice magic joined her in casting whatever spell that she was conjuring, it grew colder as they harness together the Winds of Magic, as they cast the [Ice Maiden's Kiss] which is described as numbing kiss of winter is enough to have hoarfrost crystalise on the skin, chilling any creature to the bone, all these sorceresses were bursting with ice magic. (I took some artic freedom, since I've never played Kislev, and never seen how this spell manifest, so I went my way on how it appears and attacks.)
As a small blizzard was formed around these kislevites women, frost and magic surged fort, slowly down slightly the daemons of blood and change, that's when Katarina and her magical followers rised their hands up to their lips, and blew a kiss at the daemons, sending a huge blast of ice magic at these daemons.
Icicles and frost surge fort, stabbing and freezing these daemons causing some damage, and the intensity of frost and magic grew and amplify the power of their combine [Ice Maiden's Kiss] spell.
Many bloodletters and flesh hounds started to die, with the wraths bulbous bombs being stabbed, and causing explosions, catching many daemons from both blood and change legions, seeing the rising count of kills in their forces.
The decarabias, casted two spells [Null Fire] & [Null Ice], thus stopping the rising kill count of "friendly" units, but this did annoy the khornate daemons even if the Changer's minions saved them, the action of being save by cowardly magic irritated the Blood God's spawn.
But this unsuspect amount of loses for both daemonic forces, this was insulting to both legions, being struck by magic, cast by a damned human, this double the rage and efforts for the blood and change daemons were continuing their charge.
Meanwhile Kholek, and Harald were charging through the enemies their hammers crushing all that stand in their way, along with Tai Tai and her Clutter, Skarlet and her Blades, and Yuma and her Blightkings were causing mass amount of damage, they were on their way to join the main force in fighting against the infamous Ice Queen.
Returning again to the duel between Naryska and Yuri Godslayer, were still engaged to each other, as the Exalted Daemon Prince, was still channeling the Fire Lore spell of [Burning Stream] down upon the Golden Knight from the air.
This irritating game of Cat and Mouse, just became way more dangerous and annoying for Naryska, as all she could do is to keep running around in the snow, evading all the hellish flames chasing her down, as her strength and energy was quickly fading away from her body, so in act of desperation, Naryska took aim and tossed her [Ursun's Claw] at the Traitor Prince.
As the cyan blue colored, magical scimitar, soared straight at Yuri, seeing this approaching danger and he was forced to stop channeling the fire magic, and swiftly dodge to the right.
The [Ursun's Claw] almost stab him, as it passed by him and now gravity was in play making it fall, this gamble seems to pay off, as she could take a short breathe and run to reclaim her discard weapon, before the Godslayer strike again.
Gasping for air, as she ran straight to were her sword has landed, meanwhile in the air, Yuri spotted Naryska running towards her sword, he growled as he spread his wings and swoop down to attack her.
It was makeshift race to decide the fate of this duel...as short moment, each got closer to their respected target.
Just as Naryska managed to place her hand over the wrapped handle of her enchanted scimitar, feeling her enemy was upon her, she pulled the [Ursun's Claw] and swung it with all her might, behind her!!
Both combatants believing they each connected a fatal slash, as both dash pass the other, with blood staining the snow, with their respected blade in a high swing position, having each just delivered a wide swing at the enemy...after a couple moments of stillness, coughing cut into the howling winds...
Naryska stumble a few step forward, as a huge gash was on her chestplate, very deep and bleeding, while also showing quick signs infection, as her strength was quickly wasting away from her body, she couldn't even stay on her feet, her legs ached and even in these almost artic levels of cold, Naryska, she felt her body growing warmer.
Yuri straighten his posture, Naryska's final blow only nicked his left shoulder, while his [Plague Blade] struck true.
The debilitating embrace of OW-Nurgle, was quickly coursing through the body of the Golden Knight, as he heard her falling to the snow behind him, Yuri smiled as he slowly turned around, standing tall behind the coughing, bleeding, and kneeling form of Naryska, futilly trying to fight off the Plague God's touch.
He'll admit it was quite enjoyable to face such a legendary figure from his former homeland, but he hasn't finished her yet, grasping onto the rusted handle of the huge, blighted, nurglish blade, he rised it high above his head and in a brutal slash between her right neck and shoulder-blade he struck.
Cutting deeply into her in a angle, blood gushing and bursting out the huge wound, as Naryska gasped in pain, the Godslayer pulled out the nurglish blade and struck again, and one more time until he cut through, slashing Naryska into two halves. [Picture the Jason "Kill for Mommy" fatality, only instead of face to face, is back presented to the killer.]
Yuri Godslayer, looked at his kill with pride, and saw also the renowned sword of the Golden Knight, the [Ursun's Claw] on the snow, it was a great prize for his victory, reaching down with his massive left claw, he grabbed the scimitar and took it with him.
This was another loss for Kislve, one most devastating, as the Dark Legion was still fighting back and causing great damage to a now organized Kislve army.
Tzeentch/Ixion was still fighting against more interlopers, that are coming from various places to face him, all of them fell to his weapons and magic.
None were spared, as a couple Mindstealer Sphiranxes, and Flammers, along with the eldritch, cthulhu like Greater Daemon, a Malachi now accompanying him as they slaughter through the Kislevite troops.
Khorne, Laharl, and Nurgle enjoying quite a show, unlike the other mayor battles on the Motherland, this one Tzeentch was more hands on in his approach of warfare.
As they saw their younger brother, crush the skull of a warrior, cut a kossar in half, and cleave another with his harbert, it was quite impressive Tzeentch combat skills, as his Malachi use it huge eldritch projectile called [Nightmare] the slow, eldritch projectile tore through several bears and a couple snow leopards that these troops were commanding.
The Warp Gods while having their own opinions they can admire Tzeentch's uniqueness, especially when mirrored on his daemons, devastators of magic and the greatest amongst the daemonic legions of Chaos in range and sorcery...at much as still annoys Khorne, but he understands regretfully that is Changer's strength...and cowardness...a comment he spoke out loud honestly, which Laharl knew was Khorne own "version" of a brotherly complement, but didn't say anything to keep the Blood God's image.
Returning to the outside of the avatar, Tzeentch just made Ixion perform a spinning attack that cut down six enemies in one stroke.
In honest belief, this was growing stale for the Architect so he decided to change things up, sending a mental command to all forces to pull back behind him, for he was about to bring true unbridled chaos upon the whole battlefield, immediately the forces of Change obeyed, as the daemons already knew what their Dark God meant by "bring true unbridled chaos".
Then the forces of Carnage, followed by the force of Plague, then beastmen, Chaos monsters, mutants, and more, with the last that regretfully obeyed the Chaos Lord's command being the forces of Blood, and only cause Skarlet enforced her command.
Katarina, was a bit confused by this tactic that the Dark Legion was taking, not wanting to fall or allow whatever scheme the Arcane Monarch was planing to come to fruition, she commanded her forces to advance.
Khorne was insulted and enraged by this action of "falling back", but the Dark One shot back, "Brother. None of us believes in falling back or retreat. But isn't less honorable to blindly sacrifice warriors, for a scheme that they had no say or knowledge of?" using Khorne's own divinity over and code of honor to silence him.
For the Dark One immediately knew what Scheming God, was plotting...combo magic, only having seen his [Fluxing Thunderbird] spell, he is quite eager to see something new, and with his younger brother being the Chaos God of Magic & Sorcery, it won't be disappointing.
And speaking of the Scheming God, he felt his oldest brother's intrigue, curiosity, eagerness, and...pride...directed at him, that was both a welcome and confusing sensation for the Master of Broken Monotony, one hand he was more than happy to oblige his eager brother in providing a show, as the mortal say...but his brother feels proud of him?
That was something that Tzeentch strangely never expected and somehow liked...shaking off his inner confusion, Tzeentch made Ixion walked in front of all the gathering forces of the Dark Legion.
All units were rushing in and marching passed the Chosen of the Gods, once all remaining forces were assemble, Ixion/Tzeentch saw as the Tzarina was moving exactly as he wanted.
Getting closer and closer to their doom, and since the Dark One truly wants a spectacle of arcane fury, Tzeentch, he was more than happy to give such a show.
Smashing down the [Corrupted Ursunite Scepter] onto the snow, the Architect of Fate began to manipulate the Winds of Magic, and command two different Lores of Magic, in this case Fire and his own.
The skies lite up, in various tzeentchian colors and spectrum of reds and yellows like an inferno was ignited in the clouds, this of course made Katarina stop the march, and very anxious, as she has heard of the magical marvels that the Chosen of the Gods, has been reported to have cast, but witnessing it personally...is unbelievable...