A quick note before I start writing. Due to the lack of entries, the contest is being cut short by two weeks. However, the person running it did post the final two challenges as bonus optional challenges. The first is a repeat of an earlier challenge, telling us to color shift a creature type. The second is a version of another previous challenge, this one to take a seldom used class and incorporate it into the setting (the previous challenge had to do with races - the entry with the Archons and Devils) Having these two challenges occur at the same time actually helps me significantly - I intend to color shift one of the seldom used classes. Read on!
It should come as little surprise that the rebels count a large number of berserkers as their allies. In fact, these berserkers tend to be the preferred candidates for becoming enchantment-laden shock troops. As discussed before, these warriors have countless enchantments stacked on them before being sent out to fight. Because the berserkers tend to lack subtlety anyway, they are ideal candidates. The almost 100% fatality rate doesn't bother them, as their culture finds glory in death on the battlefield.
However, there comes a time when a true battle is required. On these rare occasions, when their enchanted champions are important to the outcome of the immediate battle, the rebels deploy their Flagbearers. Using ancient magic, the rebels weave spells of aggression into their battle standards. The result causes all enemies who are not in direct melee combat to focus on the Flagbearer, regardless of other conditions on the battlefield. Unfortunately, this effect only lasts while the flag is being wielded, but the few moments of distraction it brings can turn the tide of battle completely.
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It is a common for philosophers across the Multiverse to debate what form the first life forms took. Traditionally, a philosopher will choose a lower form of life related to themselves: Merfolk choose fish, Viashino choose lizards, and so on. However, those who can visit Tyranix are in the unique position to discover the truth: All the theories are correct.
At the borders of the Wilds and the Wasteland, strange forms of life exist. The mixing of the decay-tinged mana suffusing the Wasteland and the verdant mana of the Wilds has created new life in a very similar form to what existed when the world first formed. A viewer from our modern world would recognize it as an amoeba, but this is not strictly correct. It is actually a form of condensed proto-life, containing the possibility to become any kind of life form imaginable. Reacting to their surrounds, these Shapeshifters will eventually adopt the form that will best allow them to thrive, staying in that form for the rest of their lives. Commonly this is simply a tree, expanding the Wilds slowly but surely, but increasingly commonly they become the animals needed to inhabit the forest. It is unclear what they will become when they interact with the cities of The Order, but the Leshy intend to find out.
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