WAR.
Two kings of warring nations meet upon a darkened night for talks of peace. Their feelings of hate turn quickly to attraction as enemy is made lover. A brief but lustful affair is eventually had between the leaders, thus betraying their homelands. In a fit of guilt, one king lunges for the other, but the initiating king is killed in the struggle, thus deepening the wounds that conceal the poisons of war. The surviving king returns to his Kingdom and confesses all to his jealous Queen. Her actions are led by rage as she enacts laws of chastity, punishable by death, all whilst flaunting the fruits of sexuality herself. A civil uprising occurs, whereby her population begins to dissect the connective tissues of state. As the enemy encroaches, a failing marriage at the head and the state is ridden with the disease of anarchy; only one thing is certain. The Head Will Fall.

In another grasp for power, the Queen begins unleashing her envious, lustful rage upon innocent virgins within her kingdom. Thus, the Queen undergoes her Blood Renaissance, transforming into a vicious monster who hunts down these chaste women and then enslaves, rapes and tortures them, in a repugnant campaign of sexual violence. Witnessing this, the King disowns the Queen entirely. Falling into a pit of despair without her King, she entraps, rapes and nearly kills the King, although he is saved by his guards in his otherwise final moments. With his marriage and Kingdom fallen, the now powerless King escapes into the war-torn streets. There, he finds an injured soldier who reminds him of his short-lived romanticised affair with the dead King. The pair form a bond of purity; True Love.

Inevitable destruction looms upon the King, however, as he lives on the run as a wanted man in his own occupied state; he thus retreats into hiding with his new-found love. Hell-bent on revenge, the Queen has fully betrayed her Kingdom, offering her King’s whereabouts to the enemy. In a scene of pandemonium, The King and his new found-love are confronted by the traitorous Queen and the Son of the Dead King, flanked by enemy soldiers. In heated exchange the King declares the Queen a traitor and demands her accountability for the deaths of soldiers and civilians. He is, however, powerless. His new love is snatched from his arms and is about to be executed before him. Suddenly, artillery strikes the hideout, and all are presumed dead except the fallen King. With his trilogy of love buried in the rubble of his once great kingdom, the fallen King remains void of everything but one desire: revenge. He begins his transformation into Thanatos; the personification of Death Upon the Pale Horse. Methodically, over a period of months or even years, he takes down the enemy army, one soldier at a time, using the powers of a god bestowed upon him by pure anguish. Eventually, he challenges God himself, and Heaven bows down before him in shame. “Rise, Rise, Rise!” he shouts to his people as he eventually takes back his Kingdom.      
 
Revenge has not yet been delivered, however, for the King learns that the Queen and the Son of the Dead King survived the events that killed his true love. In the finalé of a prodigious battle of both violence and intelligence, the King brings down his shining sword into the chest of the Queen’s new lover, slowly killing him as the duo lock eyes, embracing death. The Queen, witnessing this peripeteia and realising the atrocity of her actions, dies of shock. 

The King has thus fulfilled his final purpose and reflects upon his circumstances. His enemies are dead, his kingdom is destroyed and no emotion remains to fill this void. 

The King falls deaf upon everything within his world, and with his objectives complete, he takes his leave from this world.