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Winning story for our contest (1x2 tickets, both days for two people), written by Joshua Kirrbach:

Once upon a time when corrupted kings ruled this world, one man was born to fight them all and bring salvation. This man was called CORONATUS. He was an ordinary boy grown up in SINBREED, a little village which was controlled by KING LEORIC. KING LEORIC was the worst and most brutal king in LIGHTMARE, a province in England. He had that thing the German call "NARZISS". So the day came when CORONATUS and his men started to overtake LIGHTMARE: "Today is the day! TODAY WE RISE for our homes... for freedom! We DEFY THE LAWS OF TRADITION, and I’ll go NEVER BACK DOWN until the head of KING LEORIC lays in my hands! I’m BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE and I only want to see that monster suffer! Many of my brothers and sisters were killed by him, but THROUGH SOLACE I got new strength. There will always be this BITTER PIECE of me, but FOR TODAY I have to hide these thoughts and feelings, for my people and for my homeland! Today there is no ARCHWAY... there’s a straight way we must go! The LANE to the castle is paved with skulls and blood. Many of us will die, but we will see each other at last in NEXT LIFE. Today we’ll become legends! For our wives and sons and daughters we die! Can you hear us king? Today we’re CRUSHING CASPARS... including you! Your THEOCRACY won’t imprison us anymore! THY BLEEDING SKIES will fall!"

 

 

THROUGH SOLACE - "The World On Standby" - (Strike First Records - April 28, 2009)