It was now well past dusk when the soldiers attacked the village with such surprise and efficiency that Huntsman was surprised himself, these were men that had nothing more to live but to serve him, and they took their job with a serious finesse.

Huntsman watched from afar, he saw the villagers scream and saw the brief flashes of his men as they darted from building to building killing those who resisted and gathering the elders, the buildings had started to smolder and smoke with the onset of the unstoppable flame that would consume them...

There were buildings roaring with fire from the carnage as the unknown soldiers slaughtered the villagers as they tried desperately to escape the horrible death that awaited them he watched transfixed as if his legs were made of the coldest iron instead of the warm blood and flesh they should be. He watched, there was no chance for this small village there was to many of them, he heard a blood curdling scream of terror from the small mud cottage beside him and snapped, he sprinted as fast as his numb legs could take him and burst through the small door surrounded by yellow flames licking at his heel like ravaged dogs desperately trying to bound to his flesh and seer it deeply. He made his way to the back room of the building, a heavy roofing beam broke above him from the awesome heat of the ripping flames.. no the beam had not broken, he looked up and the beam creaked and with the strain of the mud roof now that it was too weak to hold the immense pressure of the roof, it snapped with a deafening crack as fiery splinters showered the floor like shooting stars in the south of the summer night sky. The beam bore down upon him, time slowed and the beam gradually fell down as he watched the splintered two foot hardwood beam continue its descent, he drew Rameses his scimitar from its sheath on his back,he relished the soft cowhide thin leather strap binding the hilt sword as if waiting for the beam to reach him, he tensed his muscular arms as he drew the light blade behind his head and brought it forward in a short arc as the beam reached within inches of his soot stained head, cold sharp steel met the flaming wood, the blade of the scimitar entered the split section of the wood and met no resistance as the sword cleanly severed the beam into two pieces and each half fell away either side now smoldering free of flame from the wind the shear speed of the strike had conjured in its deadly wake.
Mere seconds passed in reality but to Huntsman it seemed like minutes, such was the way of his extraordinary senses....


Huntsman was standing watching the scene from just inside the citadel gate as buildings flared with the intense fire, a lone warrior jumped dagger in hand from the wall attempting to attack and subdue Huntsman, Huntsman snorted with disdain, and like a flash as if possesd by lightening Huntsman drew Rameses and Ptolemy and in the same fluid motion spinning to meet the onslaught of his attacker but instead of stopping to face his opponent he over spun and calmly extended his swords at arms reach, the man realised his mistake to late as he met the blinding speed of the attack and was sliced in two. Huntsman sliced his swords down and like water from a ducks back the mans blood that slicked his blades slid off with delicate ease and Huntsman re sheathed his swords.
He could feel the cool air rush past him as the hungry flames quickly devoured the oxygen from within the atmosphere to fuel its rage he saw the flames rise several feet in the air and seem to drift into each other as if drawn together and form a figure of a ferocious beast. The fire beast rose from the flames like a phoenix and literally stepped out of the flames to become separate of the ongoing fires engulfing the building. The immense and huge bulking creature turned its attention towards Huntsman as it slowly strode towards him leaving trails of flickering flame wherever the beasts orange body touched objects around it. The beast stopped in front of Huntsman as he stood there calmly and nonchalantly as if expecting no attack from the creature which started to decrease in size right in front of him. The fires that made up the beasts body had subdued to a bright glow from the now visible muscular bulking body of a man, small flames and sparks flicked from the body as if trying to escape the prison of the mans flesh but the will of the man held back the hunger of the flames, slowly the glow dimmed and there stood a beastly man of immense bulk with thick curved ghastly horns protruding from the side of the square framed head, short spines of hard earth protruded from the mans thick muscle defined arms and back like the jagged mountains protruding from the planet, his fingers ended in not those of a man but vicious curved claws like that of the wild beast of this land, his eyes glowed a deep red and then left as the deep glow faded.. no withdrew into the mans body. The only items distinguishing this man from normal humans now was the thick ram like horns and beast like claws.

Isuldur, Huntsmans second elite soldier summoned from the very flames of hell itself stood before him.
Isuldur bowed "Sir your orders have been seen to, the elders are gathered outside the south side of the village"
Huntsman replied "Good we shall question them and see how much they know, for now secure the rest of the village and see to any strays and the re group at that point"
Isuldur bowed again stood an took forth to do his masters bidding.

It was rumored that Huntsman himself heard the rumor of a fiery beast buried deep with in the deepest caves of the planet that possessed such immense power that he ventured to find this such creature to serve him.
Hence Huntsman summoned Isuldur the beast of earth and fire.