Stavik Magnuson's Last Stand

Life, Death

Rather than lie down and die, flee until they starve, or struggle to build ships to sail to safety, Stavik Magnusson decides to stand against the hordes of undead atop the Kingsgrave. It is said he knew it was futile, but to stand and fight atop the mound of the ancestors to protect their history and their heroes.

Stavik Magnuson was a chieftain and a leader of the villiage of Myrka at the edge of the Wyrmbone. He was a great warrior that was said to hear the Guardian's wishes and fight with Spirits at his side and under his boot. He led his people to a large hilltop and burial mound in the center of the Highlands known as the Kingsgrave, and defended it, protecting his people's heroes as well as listening to the spirit's calls. They repelled the Feast of Hell, and more men of the north came to their banner, fighting with them atop this hilltop, making a last stand. In the end, they were all that was left of mortality in the land, and Illuvatar, the great Lich, went into the Kingsgrave and beckoned forth the anchient chieftains from their graves. Betrayed by their ancestors, Stavik and his people died upon that hilltop. Fifteen years later, when those that survived in the north could recount the tales and Stavik grew into a legend and a hero, they settled upon the hilltop, naming it the Luna Balcan, or 'last stand by the light of the moon'.