For centuries, the well-trained Embirian army has held back the vicious, yet disorganized armies of Straife using strength of arms and a barrier wall between the two lands.
 

Fail your in your mission and see your army being overrun down to the last commander(Kurtlinn, right), hordes of enemy fighters overrun your city gates and attack your citizens while Embir watches in horror, helpless from the realm of the gods all to the chilling music of Gustav Holst.

• This is my Boss-battle contest map where the point was to make the best, most interesting Boss-battle.
• Despite being a 150 x 150 (contest rules) map, there is an intricate, carefully directed, written and acted intro cinematic lasting over 10 minutes!
• The sound effects will consist of AOM sounds supplemented with carefully chosen excerpts from Gustav Holst's the Planets and Wagner's Die Gφtterdδmmerung (Twilight of the Gods).
• The storyline is carefully intertwined with the game play for added emotion and realism and features winning and losing cinematics.
• The first battle involves defeating an army of undead creatures who rise from the dead and when defeated blast choking sands at their attackers until the soul that has been stolen is released to heaven in a beam of light - all made possible by a revolutionary new custom trigger written to manage up to thirty monsters using a single effect.
• This project is the embodiment of my story-telling, triggering, screenshot and cinematic skills and will (hopefully) cement my legacy in the world of AOMH.

To do list:

• Add music clips and more sounds to cinematic and fix scene continuity
• tune strength of undead army
• finish final battle
• create success cinematic
• create failure cinematic *done
• Consider creating voice acting
• test
• release

Updates:

11/12 Fixed player # issues, edited sound files, timed and placed music for corpse scene (very chilling), intro cinematic battle..
11/16 Created new triggers for custom placement of effects for the final battle and visualized the final battle sequence
11/19 Added more cinematics before undead battle and refined existing dialogue, fixed diplomacy issues.
11/21 Updated intro story battle scene with more action and sound effects. Created custom unit create effects for square, round and spiral deployment pattern.
11/23:

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12/2 Began work on position units in circle trigger which will lead to the unit Halo triggers.
12/5 Reworked the math on the circle trigger to work for all radii and allow for a shift.
12/7 Created first Halo trigger: flat circle rotating style.
12/8 Create the vertical spiral version of the halo and released <a target="_blank" href="" /> Video
12/10 Smoothed the timing between new trailer sequence and rest of intro movie. Fixed consequences of stealing movie space for title.
12/14 Updated the undead army effect (manage up to 30 monsters individually through a four-phase life cycle in a single effect) from test mode to production use .
12/18 Fixed bugs in poison effect code. Created a communication system so that the each instance of the Zombie Manager effect can tell you how many of its zombies are currently dormant,alive,dying and dead and which hero(es) is/are currently being poisoned by using predictably named questvars. This allows for triggers to be created that will know when all zombies have been killed as well as having special effects when the heroes are being poisoned like sound effects, etc.
1/5 Organized the undead battle area into elemental zones of fire, poison and sands.
1/8 Experimented with the three classes of undead with choice of effects, poison strength and duration. Created first segment of failure cinematic - Kurtlinn cornered
1/12 Made huge progress on losing cinematic. Watch as your armies are overrun by the enemy hoard and see your best commander, Kurtlinn, cornered to fight to the death and the enemy storm the main gate to the city. Screenshot of Kurtlinn's last stand added.
1/19 Finished losing cinematic. Improved torchlight and custom flickering firelight effects. Got fantastic idea from Mireille about final hero battle and enemy deployment using halos. Updated move object to point effect to fire event once point has been reached. Updated halo effect for rising/falling effects and flat circles and turn on/off ability.
1/22 A great session with major upgrades to the halo effect:  there will be many variations to allow for incredible special effect possibilities!
1/30 Worked on battle music. Chopped Uranus into two bridges, two levels of repeating battle music and the final release.
2/2 Started applying the halo effects to the cinematics: Rexel's skull shield and fire/poison/sands curse.  Chose music for victory sequence (Siegfried's funeral anyone?) It's gonna be good   Finished cinematic up to undead battle. Created sound loops for storm and lightning crashes for easier sound control.
2/7-8 Created the deploy version of the halo. Need to make the trigger reusable.
Zombie trigger: tested and fixed all bugs in the Zombie triggers statistics . Fixed bug with using prototypes that disappear that threw off the count.
Created conditions to support use of the zombie trigger: 
2/17 made sound filenames consistent, created and implemented sound loops and centralized necessary lightings.
2/18-3/10 Created and tested deploy version of halo for use in final battle.
found painful long-term problem with halo effect being canceled by a previous trigger.
Implemented halo-healing system, poison damage detection and implementation and indictation (audio and visual).
Added a body countdown to undead scene and tuned and tested strength/healing/hitpoints sytem.
Sent test copy to Baske for bugcheck/difficulty/idea feedback.
Started post-undead battle cinematics and ran visual tests of main boss scene.
3/11-8/5/09 major hiatus due to mental stuckness/everything else looked more interesting
8/5-12/09

Cleaned up previous quirkiness and timing problems with older cinematics. Updated the halo effects to latest versions.

Moved cinematic progress from undead battle area into shrine area. The heroes are trapped and sealed into the shrine area forced to witness theirs and everyone's end.