Chapter 8 - Ruins of the Old Eleusis

As I exited into the outskirts of Megara I could see what they meant by a vicious attack. Every single house there was broken and burnt. And what the worst of all – the skeletons were still there. I fought them all. I made sure there were no left and at one stage encountered a very smelly, rotten one. He was pretty powerful and his nasty fumes were giving me a headache. At one stage I passed out for a few seconds, just then to realise he was still there and was going to stab me. I got up instantaneously with lots of energy and began smacking him with the leg tip. It wasn’t working that well, but I eventually de-assembled him to bits. I guess I should use the hammer for the skeletons next time.
I then entered a small wood and momentarily spotted that bridge that led to Athens. But it was broken. I wasn’t happy, even though I knew I will be going to Delphi anyway. I walked up to 3 men that were rebuilding it and asked what happened. They said that there was a big battle there and at one moment a huge Cyclops came and smashed the bridge to pieces. I asked him how long ago that was and the guy said a couple of hours ago. This meant that the Cyclops might still be nearby somewhere.
I then continued Northwards through the wood until I reached masses of ruins. I guessed this must’ve been the Old Eleusis. There was a good number of skeletons outside it. I made my way towards the ruins, bashing all the skeletons on the way and finally entering the underground section that seemed to be the main bit. I got my hammer out as I knew there will be mostly skeletons down here.
It consisted of broken down hallways and tonnes of tombs in rooms. I came across one of the princes straight away. That was Polypas, the prince of the blade. He was a red-coloured skeleton and seemed very aggressive. He could swing with his blade very fast and also kept on battering me with his shield. However he went down quickly. I only needed to hit him a few times with the hammer in order to shatter his bones completely.
I then proceeded through the numerous hallways and encountered many different beasts such as ratmen, eurynomi and bats. They seemed to dwell there with the skeletons. I made sure they didn’t stop me and proceeded to the next section of rooms. In there I met the second prince – Menon, prince of the bow. He was of red colour too just like his brother and could shoot arrows from his bow very fast and very accurately. I received a couple of arrows in the torso and one in the leg, before getting close and personal with him and smashing his skull with my hammer.
I drank a couple of potions to relieve the pain and took the arrows out. I waited for a bit to catch my breath and then continued going along the hallways. I now entered the main chamber. It had lots of bats and also some traps. The traps were of various types, some were shooting knives, others fireballs, thirds ice shards. I tried to use pillars for cover and made my way past the traps safely.
At this end of the chamber stood the third brother – Aristeus, prince of the staff. He was red too and as soon as he saw me he began viciously casting various spells. I could barely dodge them all and one of the ice shards even hit me in the face. It felt very cold, but gladly it didn’t knock me out. He also kept on casting a weird cloud of chill. I tried to stay away from those as I didn’t want to freeze to death. Once I got close to him though he couldn’t do much. My hammer smashed him to pieces really well.
Knowing that all 3 princes were defeated I slowly began making my way back through the ruins. It took me a while, but I remembered most of the way anyway so didn’t get lost.
I was now ready to proceed through the forest towards the Halcyon coast that is to the North of it.

Chapter 7 - The Curse of the 3 princes

So I successfully descended the bluff and now was at Megara coast. The city of Megara was just on the opposite end of the coast.
As I made my way through this coast I was attacked by groups of Ichthians and giant turtles. Ichthians were strange creatures. They were some sort of aquatic reptiles. While most of them were melee types, there were a few intelligent ones that could cast magic spells and heal their allies. They also had tough scales and so could withstand more damage than satyrs. Giant turtles were even more durable than Ichthians and could take a lot of beating before dying. However they were really slow, making movement speed the most useful thing against them. Of course the leg tip from a fallen deathweaver did an extremely good job with these creatures. It probably would’ve taken me twice as long to fight each of them if not for that powerful poison dripping from the leg tip.
In some rare places I came against a few undead too. While most were skeletons and zombies, I also met a few wraiths of dead sailors. These guys were just the same as zombies really – slow, average strength and average endurance. I didn’t sweat much while bringing them down.
I also remembered another one of warrior’s skills. The professionals like to call it War Wind. It consists of a warrior gliding through the air really fast towards an enemy pack of choice and once there to violently spin 360 degrees. The skill is called war wind because in order to learn it and to be able to perform it you must learn to feel the air around you and to feel one with it. This will help you glide through it with an enormous speed as if you are just a ghost and to stop yourself you produce a violent and rapid spin that can really bleed all the monsters in range.
So I finally reached the Megara gates and entered the lovely city. It was a coastal city and therefore nicely smelled of fish. It was also significantly bigger and busier than Helos and Tegea. I felt like I was getting close to Athens.
Before I could go very far I saw a guy who looked very miserable. I decided to find out why. When I asked him why he was so miserable he began telling me a story about undead attacking them last night. He was saying something about the 3 princes attacking the city and killing many people, including his whole family. He then began rattling on about some curse that the princes would bring to them and how it is the end of the world. I felt bad and so reassured him that I will take care of the situation and everything will be all right.
Then I remembered that I needed to find a man by the name of Timon. I asked a few people of where I could find him and each was giving me various directions.
After a few minutes I came across the man.
- “Welcome to Megara. How can I help you?” he asked.
- “I was sent by Leonidas.” I replied, “He said that you know how to get to Athens and also how to find the Oracle.”
- “Ah, you’re also seeking Oracle’s prophecy about these beasts?” Timon wondered.
- “Yes I do.” I replied, “How can I get there?”
- “Well Athens is pretty much directly across the bridge that’s right outside the other end of Megara. However to go to Delphi and see the Oracle there you’ll need to go through Halcyon coast to village of Ambrossos, across Phocian swamps and you’ll get to Delphi. It’s a long way my friend.”
I wondered there for a second of what I should do. Should I travel to Athens and see how my people are doing? Or should I postpone it and go see the Oracle about the monsters? After a few minutes of careful thought I decided that I should go and see the Oracle in Delphi.
- “All right, I’ll go to Delphi.” I said.
- “Excellent my friend! I wish you best of luck.” Timon said.
I then decided to ask him about the undead:
- “Could you please tell me of what happened last night with undead attacking?”
- “Yes” he sighed, “They do attack us on occasion, but this time it was worse, it was much much worse. The three princes of old Eleusis were with the rest of the pack.”
- “Who are these 3 princes?” I asked, “And what about that curse that they’re meant to bring?”
- “The 3 princes are the 3 undead brothers. Each is a master of a specific form of combat: Polypas – prince of blade, Aristeus – prince of staff and Menon – prince of bow. They once were cursed by the God Apollo to never enter Hades and to walk the Earth. But it was considered to be a legend until yesterday when we actually saw them with our eyes. The curse that you might’ve heard about is that if the 3 princes are truly real and start attacks on cities then it is said there will be a massive apocalypse - an apocalypse where gigantic army of undead will walk over Greece, destroying every city on its path.”
- “So is this true? Personally I’ve fought lots of undead on my way here.” I said.
- “If the legend is true, then we’re all doomed. The Greece is doomed!”
- “I’ll see what I can do with these 3 princes. Maybe I should try to fight them.”
With this thought in mind I travelled to the opposite gates of Megara and exited it towards some farmland.

Chapter 6 - Venomous crawlers

As I exited the village into the fields I was attacked by 3 arachnos, i.e. half humans and half spiders. I took them out pretty quickly, but the presence of arachnos told me that they were responsible for the poisoned spring. I knew for sure that those things were pretty venomous. Some types were more venomous than others. The Deathweavers were the most venomous ones to my knowledge, and except for having a lethal poison bite they also could produces masses of poison from their leg tips. Gladly one of the arachnos I took out was a young deathweaver. I ripped a tip of one of his legs very carefully and decided to use it as a weapon.
Beating a few more arachnos as well as ordinary oversized spiders on my way I reached the spring. Next to it I saw a woman figure. I walked up to her. She turned out to be a water nymph, or precisely a naiad of this spring. I asked whether the spiders poisoned the spring and she said yes. I then asked where could I find their nest and she pointed in the direction of a cave nearby the spring.
I quietly crept towards the cave and entered it. Ordinary arachnos were not a big problem. I knew I could take them out in seconds, but I was more worried about meeting deathweavers. I knew for sure that to poison a whole spring there had to be a handful of deathweavers behind it.
As I made my way through the dimly lit cave I took out several packs of oversized spiders and arachnos. The deeper I went into the cave the more fear I had. But fear is useful if you know how to channel it into strength and speed. I could do it a little, but it is mostly the defenders that are masters at doing that.
I finally reached the nest. At first I hid behind one of the large rocks and peeked out in order to count all of the deathweavers that I could see among the huge number of arachnos and spiders that lived there. I knew for sure that the deathweavers are the ones I had to take out first. There seemed to be a reasonable number of them there.
By gaining some strength in my muscles I got up from my position and ran forwards. A few arachnos, including deathweavers have spotted me. The deathweavers began their attack by throwing a few venomous sacks in my direction. I dodged those no problem and proceeded to the melee combat with these venomous crawlers.
Deathweavers also had a relatively poisonous breath and so while coming too close to them I had to hold my breath, because smelling a deathweavers’ breath could make you sick for days.
Stabbing a venomous leg tip into their torsos proved to take them out quickly and that’s what I kept on doing. The first wave was beaten and now the second wave of arachnos approached. Again starting their attack with venomous sacks that I dodged successfully again they all went down.
The third wave contained more deathweavers. I quickly lunged myself into the middle of the battle in order to stab as many of them in little time as possible. I succeeded, but also received a nasty deathweaver leg tip stab in the left arm. Damn that broken crude buckler that didn’t do its job. After I killed them all, it took me a good number of potions to heal the wound. I knew that it would still hurt for a few hours, but I could stand pain, so that was OK.
I then searched through the pieces of armor dropped by the dead deathweavers, picked the best ones and put them on. Soon after I exited the cave and saw that naiad all happy and grateful for my deed. She blessed me with some health and energy and I was ready to go back to Tegea to tell the good news.
Everyone in Tegea was happy, and after getting a snack I decided to take off to Megara. There was a pack of zombies right outside of Tegea’s gates. I took them out with no problems. All that venom from deathweaver’s leg tip didn’t affect the zombies, but it surely did a good job against all the pigs and satyrs that I met on my way. Soon I made it to a small coast. From the bluff on which I was standing I could see the whole coast. Two types of creatures seemed to dwell there: Ichthians and giant turtles. I knew that both of them won’t be a problem as long as I take them out quickly. I began descending the bluff.

Chapter 5 - Troubling questions

So I came back and as a proof that I’ve killed Nessus I showed Leonidas’ right hand man the sword that Nessus was using.
- “Ah, Patroclus’ short blade” he said, “It’s a rare thing, keep on to it.”
He then allowed me to talk to Leonidas for no longer than 5 minutes. I went in.
Leonidas stood right outside the largest tent in the camp.
- “What is it?” he asked.
- “I defeated Nessus and I need directions to Athens” I answered.
He was surprised by the fact that a non-spartan managed to kill someone as powerful as Nessus. Therefore he decided to help me:
- “Keep on going North-East towards Megara. My friend Timon would be able to help you from there, but if you go a bit further you should come across a small bridge leading directly to Athens. If you’re on the right way then you should go past a small village called Tegea before reaching Megara. I’ve heard they hit trouble there as well. These monsters are all over the place.”
- “Do you know what happened to all the wild beasts? Why are they so aggressive?” I asked.
- “I don’t quite know.” Leonidas said, “I feel some dark presence. Something is driving these beasts to insanity. Perhaps the Oracle will know. If you really want to know what’s happening then you should travel to Delphi and ask the Oracle there. She seems to know everything as far as I am concerned.”
- “Thank you very much.” I said.
- “Go forth warrior and remember the bravery is not born, it is made.” Leonidas said just before I left the camp.
All of this was too much to take in. I was really confused and all the mysteries were giving me a headache. Who attacked our ship? How did I survive? What is driving all the beasts to insanity? How is Chiron coping with this? How is my home city doing? What does the Oracle know about this? I was angry with all this because I really wanted the answers.
It took me a relative amount of time to travel after I left Spartan camp. I came across a few satyr camps, cleaning them out till no satyr was left alive. I also encountered more skeletons and even a few zombies. I never expected to live till the moment to see the zombies walk the Earth. I wondered if the same force that is driving the beasts crazy is also causing the dead to rise.
Neither the skeletons nor the zombies managed to stop me and my passion. After about quarter of the day of travelling I reached Tegea. I thanked the Gods that I was on the right way. While passing by I remembered that Leonidas said that there was trouble in this village and so I decided to ask people what trouble they had. I came up to a young lad by a fountain. He seemed kinda grim. I asked him what was going on and he said that their water source is poisoned and many people in the village are ill. I was no poison expert and so knew that there is nothing I could do to fix the water, but something inside was telling me that my help was needed. I therefore made a turn towards the main water source of the village in order to investigate the situation.

Chapter 4 - Man vs beast

The Spartan camp was not big. I spotted Leonidas there straight away, but it was not possible to get to him through the guards. I spoke to one of them who appeared to be his right hand man. The guy said that Leonidas is a very busy man and in order to speak to him I have to prove myself worthy. I agreed. He then said that there is a huge centaur by the name of Nessus that lives in a Pellana valley that is a great threat and needs to be taken out. Apparently he managed to kill a couple of Spartans earlier. I couldn’t believe that centaurs have gone crazy too. It made me think about what Chiron might’ve been experiencing at that very moment. I set off to Pellana valley without any further thought. It was right outside the camp. As I was exploring the area I came across a few centaurs that tried to kill me. I could see rage in their eyes and the disturbing screams that they were producing just confused me even more. I had no mercy on them and wiped out anyone that got on my way.
At one moment I saw an old Spartan resting his feet. I asked him if he knew where Nessus lived, but he didn’t know. He seemed to be all right resting there with all the monsters running around him. I wish I could be that relaxed, but I unfortunately I had many tasks that needed to be accomplished.
I carried on searching through the valley. Numerous crows and wild boars kept on attacking me together with centaurs, but none of them stopped me. My stone hammer surely broke their bones and pulverised their flesh.
Finally I saw a big group of centaurs ahead of me. Of them one was very big and he had ginger hair instead of the usual black. I assumed that was Nessus. I slowly began walking towards the group. Nessus spotted me and therefore blew in his horn. All of the other centaurs saw me at this moment and decided to attack. This scared me at first and I was gonna run back, but deep inside I knew that I could take them and so proceeded forwards. A couple of them threw nets in my direction. I easily dodged the nets and collided my hammer with the face of the first centaur. I could tell that he didn’t like that. I then began bashing them all. There were so many of them. I received a few bruises and wounds. I quickly gulped a potion in order to stop feeling pain and to allow my wounds to be healed very soon.
Eventually after receiving a few more nasty cuts, I defeated them all. It was now between me and Nessus. He charged at me and we grappled onto each other like a couple of wild beasts that were fighting for a territory. He was using a bizarre looking sword. It was pretty small compared to most other swords that I’ve seen before, but despite the size of the sword, Nessus was still a dangerous opponent. I began running around him and smacking his legs with my hammer. He began screaming from pain. I then jumped onto his back, swung as much as I could and smashed his head to bits with my hammer.
I took a few deep breaths after the fight and then picked up that weird sword that he was using. It looked like it was difficult to wield, so I decided not to use it yet, but to take it with myself just in case.
Now it was time to go back to Spartan camp and to speak to Leonidas’ right hand man.

Chapter 3 - Journey to Sparta

On my way to Sparta I encountered a lot of people who needed help. I helped them all of course. Some were attacked or captured by satyrs, others needed help to go past a group of satyrs. All was too easy. I even began remembering more of my skills such as dodging enemy attacks in time, more weapon training and also warrior's greatest skill – ability to onslaught, i.e. to get stronger and more lethal as the battle progresses. The skill itself consists of special energetic charge levels that the warrior enters subconsciously. To learn each charge level required a lot of practice in combat, but it all started coming back to me easily.
The satyrs seemed to be carrying a lot of broken weapons. They surely seemed to be crap at combat, but then there was one huge, fat satyr who was carrying a lovely stone hammer. I obviously took that hammer with me after walloping that satyr to death.
At one moment I even reached a small graveyard, and in there I couldn’t believe my eyes. The skeletons actually rose from their graves. I didn’t want any trouble with them and was preparing to leave but they spotted me and ran towards me. I didn’t do anything wrong to them, but they seemed to be aggravated with something. The new hammer seemed to be doing

a nice work of them. I could hear every bone shatter as I hit them with all my might.
A bit further on in my journey I helped one guy to find his necklace, which was stolen off him by some weird little demons that I’ve never seen before. His reaction of course after I returned it to him was rather insane and my eardrums almost burst.
Then I came across more awakened skeletons. I wonder what caused them all to rise. Something must’ve been wrong as it was thought to be a myth for the dead to ever rise from their graves unless they were cursed by the Gods. I bashed a few more bones and scattered them all over the ruins and carried on.
Spartan camp was just ahead now; I actually could see it behind some of the trees.

Chapter 2 – Burning fields

I picked up a torch that was lying on the ground and crossed the bridge to Helos farmland. A couple of satyrs saw me already and acting all hard in front of each other ran up to me in order to strike me down. I bashed each of them a couple of times, sending them to Hades this way. I was surprised that my hits didn’t bring them down instantaneously. I received a brain injury during that accident with our ship and so couldn’t remember much, and even forgot some of the most important principles of melee combat. Looks like I’ll have to start from scratch.
Those thoughts didn’t stop me, and so I picked up a buckler from one of the fallen satyrs and went on. I came up to another group of satyrs: three were archers, and the rest were with torches. I ignored the ones with torches and sped towards the archers. They were shooting at me, but my buckler helped me a lot with blocking their arrows. They were not a problem. I then took out the satyrs with torches and at that moment I felt a Godlike energy flow through me. I felt confident all of a sudden and started remembering some of my weapon training. I went on and took out more satyrs with less trouble.
I finally reached the end of the fields and encountered yet another group of satyrs, only here they had their leader with them. Looks like I interrupted them in a middle of a dinner. Well tough I thought and therefore ran in their direction. They were not happy, in particular the leader. He grabbed his staff and began chanting some spell in order to set me on fire. I pummelled a few satyrs that got on my way and once I reached the leader I began whacking him in the face. He kept on chanting more fire on me, but that didn’t stop me and finally I cracked his hornheaded skull. The rest of the satyrs ran away like little cowards. I threw my torch as hard as I could and managed to take out one of them. I then picked up an axe from one of the fallen satyrs, ransacked through the treasure chest that they had and then headed back to Diomedes.
He was pleased with my deed and therefore gave me some money and said that if I headed along the Laconian woods all the way up to Sparta then General Leonidas would be able to help me there.
I took his word and exited Helos.

Chapter 1 – Only survivor

Hello. My name is Ares. Yes I know that it’s the name of God of War, but I’m not him. I was told that my parents named me after him though. I don’t know much about my parents to tell the truth. I was brought up by Chiron – a very kind centaur. He taught me a lot of things, making me very wise and also an extremely powerful warrior.
So it’s been a couple of days ago when we were returning from Egypt back to our home city – Athens. However there’s been an accident. I don’t remember too well what happened, but I remember that something hit our ship with an enormous power causing it to topple over. I passed out then. Today I woke up in a boat. A kind fisherman by the name of Corythus said that he found me lying on a piece of debris and he thought that I was alive and so saved me. We arrived at the village where he lived. It was called Helos. I went to talk to the man in charge. His name was Diomedes. I asked him how to get back to my home city of Athens. He said that he is glad to help me, but only if I help his village. Apparently a large pack of satyrs had attacked them recently and took over their farm fields. Now they cannot go there and so do not have any food. Diomedes said that if I kill all the satyrs on their fields, then he will tell me how to get to Athens and also will give me some gold for the trip. I accepted the challenge.

Introduction

Hey, this blog is about my experience of warrior class in my favourite video game Titan Quest: Immortal Throne. Note that I've changed a lot of the storyline in order to keep readers interested with surprises. I will also include a few bonus chapters which will be told by someone else, but once it goes back to a normal chapter then it is told from Ares again. This blog was inspired by the following:

Alek's Kel'Thaus' revenge AAR - http://alekstitanquest.blogspot.com/
Alek's adventures of a lady hero - http://alekstitanquest-ladyhero.blogspot.com/
and of course what got me interested in AARs to start with:
http://www.titanquest.net/forums/spoilers/4026-i-beastman-titan-quest-aar.html

Hope you'll enjoy reading my AAR. I also have a couple of minor ones and those you'll find somewhere among last few pages of the AAR thread in the above link.