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Bone chariots made from ancient beasts

Ornately carved and bound with iron

War elephants with obsidian plates of armour crush and mangle the enemy beneath them

Arrows fly biting flesh and bones

Death from ten thousand venomous snakes

A poison like no other pollutes all drinkable water

Those who submit die of insatiable thirst

The burning radiance from golden armour

Scorches the hearts and minds of the weak and weary

Two fearless of war and death

Stand opposed, blackened by violence

Generals bellowing strategic commands

This is total war

Desiccated skeletons draped from chains

Dry blood splattered over opaque bones

Severed heads of the enemy skewered on rotten pikes

Tongues and eyes staked together like a serpent