1st Month of 681 B.C. The Dornish Passway
Prince Arrec Durrandon
The battle rages on, Arrec and his Stormlanders and Lord Yoren Yronwood and his allies fighting against the might of Sandstone, Hellholt and the Vaith. A mighty host indeed but not one that could easily beat the might that Arrec and Lord Yoren have assembled, and as such the fighting rages on and on and on. Arrec swings his weapon again and again and again, cutting down men with his hammer crushing their chests and their skulls and laughing like a man possessed. Battle, it is all he knows, all he knows how to do properly and he revels in it, swinging and crushing, swinging and crushing on the battle goes on and on. More and more men fall to his hammer and more and more blood begins to pile onto the sands of the Passway, and still Arrec fights on, never tiring and acting as if he was the Storm King come again, on he goes swinging and crushing men as he goes. The bodies begin to pile up around him as he goes.
Arrec comes up against Lord Damon Qorgyle and the old lord of Sandstone is the first proper challenge he truly faces. The man fights with a hammer as well and so the sound of hammer on hammer, clanging and clunking echoes throughout the pass, and for a time some of the men stop fighting to witness the brutal art set out before them. Qorgyle swings and dents Arrec's armour, as Arrec's blows to Qorgyle, and on it goes, one man swings and connects, another man swings and misses. But still the blows continue, the fighting goes on and on, and still they fight, and blows are rained down on one another, until with a feint and then a power hit Qorgyle is down in the ground his chest caved in and Arrec rides on, though he too is quite badly wounded.
On he goes and the battle is still raging, Arrec slightly wounded from his duel with Qorgyle can no longer ride through the enemy with as startling a frequency as he did before, and his age begins to catch up with him as well. His movements begin to slow down, but because the enemy is also beginning to weaken and tire out, he still manages to bring a fair few of them down and out to their deaths. The stranger is hovering close at hand, witnessing the debt that Arrec is paying him, and the bodies rise higher and higher, and the blood continues to flow. Arrec himself takes a fair few blows and begins weakening but still he continues fighting, on he goes, until he has to be pulled away by his son Robar lest he fall from his horse.
Still that does not stop Arrec from wanting to continue fighting, so placing his son in command of one part of the host, he rides out and continues swinging his hammer, all the while blood continues dripping from his armour and his wounds begin to make him feel feint. He crushes the rest of the host from Sandstone along with his men but before he can move onto the host from the Vaith his loss of blood causes him to fall from his horse, and when he comes to he is in his tent, Robar once again coming to the rescue. The battle it seems was won when Lord Vaith was slain by Ser Yoren Yronwood, the alliance that Vaith, Qorgyle and Hellholt had built shattered and ended right there and then.
Something more is happening but whatever it is Robar does not say, Arrec is not surprised that Arlan and Durran are not present in the tent, Robar had always been a good lad, always kind and courteous and that just shows even more now. Perhaps once Boremund is dead, Arrec will name Robar his heir just to anger his two older boys. Not a thought that is entertained for more than a moment, for the minute word reaches him that a host from Starfall and from Sunspear itself has arrived, and battle is about to commence once more, Arrec submerges himself in his battle ritual, and having his wounds bound he puts his armour on and proceeds to ride out for battle.
This time, the battle is long and drawn out, the Daynes and the Martells know this part of the land better than anyone else, and it shows when news reaches Arrec that Lord Yoren is dead, and yet his son continues fighting. Arrec swings his war hammer but finds that he no longer has the strength to continue the mad dashes that he starts, and he ends up getting injured more often than not. The bruises and the blows come down on him harder than they did before, and he feels a spinning in his head and as if he's about to be sick, but he is a Durrandon and he will not show weakness in front of the enemy and so he pushes on. His hammer ends the life of Ser Lucifer Dayne the sword of the morning, and his hammer kills Lucifer's brother Gabriel Dayne Lord of Starfall. The fighting continues and Arrec kills more and more men, though his arms begin to weaken and his eyes begin to close.
On the blows continue, and Arrec knows he is done for, has known it for a long time. The blood coming out of his system is red and black and gods he knows he won't make it to the end of the battle, let alone the day. He tries one last time to raise his hammer only for it fall out of his hands and plummet into the sand with a deep thump. Arrec looks at the attacker approaching him, if the sun and spear is anything to go by this is Prince Nymor the ruling Prince and a hell of a fighter, Arrec merely looks at the prince as the sword goes through his armour and finishes him. He dies and he knows then that this was all a trap.
