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.