Battle of the Last Stand

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The Battle of the Last Stand was a fictional climactic, bloody clash between the Army of Hope and the Legions of the Nemesis in the first Legacy of Kain game.


Battle of the Last Stand
Part of the Nemesis' War of Acquisition
Date 0 BBO
Location North of Willendorf, West of Avernus
Result Overwhelming Nemesis victory
Belligerents
The Legions of the Nemesis, professional levy The Army of Hope, Willendorf feudal voluntary
Commanders
The Nemesis King Ottmar, Kain the Vampire
Strength
Combined Northern Legionary Army (unknown number, probably 10,000-12,000, slight elevation advantage) Willendorf Feudal Army (number unknown, smaller high morale volunteer force, moderate forest cover)
Casualties and losses
Moderate early damages, Minor later damages Minor early damages, Extensive later damage (one survivor)

The Battle was fought between the Army of Willendorf, led by King Ottmar and Kain, and the Legions of the Nemesis, led by the Nemesis himself. The battle took place on hilly fields surrounded by forests somewhere north of Willendorf. The battle, at first, seemed to favor Ottmar's army, but when the good king was killed, the tide turned.

Knowing the battle could not be won and Nosgoth was doomed to conquer at the hands of the Nemesis, Kain traveled back in time and murdered the Nemesis, who was then known as William the Just, as a young man. Upon returning to the present, Kain found that the Battle of the Last Stand had never taken place, but instead, Kain himself had sparked a genocidal crusade against vampires when he, a vampire, had killed William the Just, a beloved boy-king at the time.