1. Marksaline the Necromorph Queen

Black Marker Necromancer cult and it's unfortunately fortune beginning 6 / 7

The population of Necropolis was surprised when the ship of the Spiders left the city landing place and put the city in general lockdown after they evacuated the traders and other non city population for a day and night cycel inside the city limits and ask the Necropolis Counsel to let the undead Dragons to have a lookout for Dragons attacking, since one of their work groups was under attack.

They all dutyfully let the undead Dragons fly without break patrol around the City. The Griffon military units gifted to them after the war with Equestria sending a warning to Griffonia Capital that Dragon attacked the Spiders and the rampaging Dragons might very well target other Griffon Villages or Citys. Dragon unfortunately are less tightly controlled than anycreature liked the Dragon Lord to do...

Lucky for everyone is a group of 50 Dragons very rare. Usualy never more than 5-10 Dragons run on a feeding frenzy from time to time.
If everything would run smoothly, not more than a few thousand of their population would be lost and not many Villages would be reduced to burning cinder.

After a day & night was the Dragon raiding party hunted down by the Spiders and their headless or otherwise ripped apart bodys got delivered to Necropolis so there body parts could be harvested.

After a little more than two weeks, did the Necropolis Pyramid was emptied of Spiders. The City was informed about them going to build a second Pyramid somewhere else.

Only 10.000 Big and Small Spider besides the currently in the City staying Spiders remain in the City. If the Ship would be needed than they would return. Otherwise they prepare for a War with the Dragons should they attack the City or the Spider population again. After all, a race/nation that wasn't willing to retaliate after a unprovoked attack was inviting future attacks.

The Griffon nation Griffonia would later agree to supply the City with raw materials if the Spiders wanted to build defenses for their future Borrows.
The Spider accepted and would in exchange help rebuild Griffonias city defenses all over the nation controlled by the Griffon in hope that the Griffons would stay relative safe, once the conflict between Spiders and Dragon started.

The coming decade would the City stay on higher alert and Griffonia would reroute a lot of materials for the future conflict.

Three decades after the Dragon attack on the Spiders was Griffonia Citys reinforced with walls that housed Glyph stones capable to hold air attacker off for a limited time.
The Spiders also gifted the Griffons drastically improved ballistic designed ballista, that had a capacity of five shots while the time between them was only 3 seconds. They also where coated with glinting metal to stop them from getting damage trough weather or sprayed Fire on Dragon fly by attacks.

Their amunitions was very heavy, but could effectivly impale a elder Dragon scales rather deep between 450 meter to 1 kilometer range. The ballista are very expensiv and the individual ballista had only 6 chained constructs ( eatch holding 5 shot and allowing for 30 shot per Ballista ), but it was estimated that the gunner crews would not outlast the time they needed to depleted their ammunition if they aimed carefully.

Before the war did all Crews down a mock Dragon attacking in their defensiv sector, thanks to Necropolis and their undead Dragon defense force practice. To make the gunner crews last longer, did eatch ballista had a individual heat shield that could at lest last one and a half full blast of a elder dragon concentrated firebreath attack point blank.

Unfortunately did that shield would not stop the Dragon from smashing it with his claws, but if a Ballista could hit from that range, than the Dragon would be pierced trough by the massiv aluminium coated reinforced steel arrow.

Since the undead Dragon revealed their pride and tradition demanded attack to destroy enemy groups with a Dragon breath attack close up. That knowlege alone was going to cost many Dragon adults and elders their life.

Until they run out of their limited, but powerful supply in antic Dragons. Perhaps the increased re-population demand the Dragon would be forced to endure after the war, would teach them to be more humble and not attack other Nations just because they can and had nothing better to do.

The Spider race would be the first to openly declare war against the Dragon race in recorded history. Their victory would make or break future relations with the Dragonslands remaining population.

A war between Spiders and Dragon are going to last long due to the Spider only having one ship, but the Necropolis Counsel agreed that they would support the Spider with Necromancy. There for every fallen and collected Dragon would be turned against the Dragons for the duration of the conflict, afterwards they just be added to the Necropolis defense force and ultimativly be allowed to be used on the currently designated Griffonia borders as defense force for the Griffon Royal families favor.

The war once started will proceed slowly because the Spider just use their huge Ship to attack, but were ever it would hit, Dragon would fall or flee.
The Spiders might just have one Ship, but so far it always win every confrontation it was involved in.
In the worst case scenario, they just rip out a huge chunk of earth and rock and let it fall on almost terminal velocity to give the Dragonland enough of a shake to bring their in Mounten and in the ground laying stonetunnel collapse.

The Dragon should be easily be shaken, once they realise that other races could devistate their homes worse than they did ever before. Especially since Dragon don't support one another losing their layers with their treasure burrowed in collapsed tunnels.

The simpel economic and individual focused self defense would spell their doom.

Gemdogs where use in Villages to unimportant to have shielded Walls with ballista and had underground shelters constructed instead, all connected with emergancy exits hundred of meters of the Village limits. That was a tactic used by Gemstone Dog/Wolfes burrows and would not be expected from Griffons, since they normaly fly away instead of using reinforced tunnels to flee.

Griffonia hired Equestrias help in making anti air Glyph traps. Equestria would payed premium to pay of their debts easyer.

Abesinia offered so called Sandstone light pillars that would help blind incoming Dragons to increase defensiv positions survivel capabilities even further.

Minatoria would be hired by Griffonia and Necropolis to forge reinforced working tools. The purpose was a little unclear, but the Minatour would receive massiv amounts of precious wood of different types and quality in payment for their work.

Suddenly did the Dragonlands found themself in trouble bonding many races together in a shared will to survive the brutish and cruel Dragons. Most delightful was how they never see the coming slaugher of their offensiv troops coming and will be absolutly devistated, once the Spider ship would attack their layers of tresures with one massive area of effect attack. This would be the very first time that Dragon would learn a valuable lesson:
'Fuck with the tiny races and they fucking back even harder than Fireants on a feeding frenzy!'

Equestrias part would be to mediate after the War.

Seaquestria was asked for shielding the Harbor Citys and Villages of all Nation for a good reward against expected tsunami's coming from the Spiders attack on the Dragonlords Territory.
Also for Seaponys were very interessted to save the oceans from the tsunami created debris that would get otherwise be washed back into the water that is their environment.

Many nations bonded over the huge conflict that would for the very first time in recorded history leave the Dragon in fear of the enemy coming to their lands to do as they please.

Most importantly would they declare war, before they attacked. The difference between uncivilised brutes and organized civilisation's. They are not savage Apes, having no regards for rules and good manners.

50 years since the Dragons attacked and all Nations that actually participate in the at least ever 10 years coming meeting of leaderships between Nations, had one last meeting with the Spiders and their representatives as hosts.

The Spiders would very soon fly to the Dragonlands and declare war. If Torch was unreasonable he would start the war of by killing the Spiders representatives from this meeting, otherwise he get 30 days to prepare before the war would start.

If he was foolish enough to attack out right, they dispose of him first and claim the Dragon Blood Scepter for Necropolis. Otherwise the warplan would come to be.

Fly or die, there is no try...
Should the War as planned spill from the Independent City State Necropolis spill over to Griffonia would the Citys defenses be spilling Dragon blood and earning the Necromancer stores many corpses to make new defensiv troops for Necropolis and in expansion Griffonia, if it was attacked unprovoked or within reason and discretion of the Necropolis Counsel.

Harmony AB123 was very curriouse why the Creator-s force was planning to be culling the Dragon race population directly instead of Proxys or mind control induced suicide. This would make a great recorded event to show everyone what the defiance of the 'Will of the Creator-s Pawn's' would cost. Since Harmony construct was not to run interference as the protocol demanded from it, would it record and learn from it, as far it's matrix allowed it to.

Author's Note

Stay cuddly, dear Bronys and Pegasisters

Last time edited 01.05.2024