title: Scourge of Our Blood: Scarlet Flame - The Legacy
author: Darien D Darc
description: Darien D. Darc knows that her real home will always be on the Northern Beaches of Sydney Australia. However this sense of belonging to one place was not always a part of her life, as her formative years were spent traipsing after her wonder-lust parents as they roamed their way through a variety of Africas colorful southern countries. Whilst studying for her honors in Psychology she happened to meet her future husband and as soon as the newlyweds had completed their respective degrees, they stuffed their backpacks full of lifes necessities and headed off to explore the wonders of Europe. Languorously winding their way down towards the Mediterranean, they spent the next few years island hopping and working their way through the idyllic Greek Islands. Then one autumn morning, when the cold winds from the North nudged them to migrate along with the rest of nature, they exchanged the last of their earnings for plane tickets and somewhat reluctantly headed back to the sunny Antipodes to put their hard-earned qualifications to good use at last. Luckily for them, globe-trotting did not come to an end as work commitments ensured continued trips throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia and it was only after starting a family that the two of them decided to set down more permanent roots on the shores of vibrant Sydney. Their insidiously virulent travel-bug has never really been cured and at regular frequencies three weather-beaten backpacks are once again stuffed full of lifes necessities as Darien, her husband and son head off on an adventure somewhere to the far reaches of this wonderful world.
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  Prologue
  
  These Words, These Lies
  
  Grimaldus. They lied to us about the Mannheim Gap. They sent us there to die.
  
  You know of whom I speak. We cannot outrun the echoes of Khattar. We pay the
  price now for our virtue in the past.
  
  We are sons of Dorn and we know nothing of surrender, even when victory is out
  of reach. What concerns us is injustice. Ignominy. If we could be said to fear
  anything, it is the shame of our legacy being fouled by lies.
  
  And if the Imperium remembers us at all, it will be as one of mankind’s most
  grievous failures. But we have not failed mankind; mankind has failed itself.
  The bitter hearts and closed minds of weak men and women will see us dead
  before dawn.
  
  So be it.
  
  Our enemies do not move in the light, where they run the risk of facing ou