| “ | Lamentia: Wait Tarnum! I am not trying to undermine you. I am trying to help you. Maybe it is time I revealed myself... You don't recognize me. It is surely understandable. Time has decayed my undead body even more than your own, and my features might be severely damaged. Tarnum: Who are you? Lamentia: Yalla! |
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| ~ Lamentia revealing her identity to Tarnum. |
Lamentia, formerly known as Yalla, is the deuteragonist of Heroes Chronicles: The Glory of War. She was the lover of Tarnum and, like him, a Barbarian-turned-death knight.
Biography[]
Sometime after her execution during the Barbarian war against the Empire of Bracaduun, Yalla was reanimated into a death knight and adopted the name of Lamentia. She continued to be haunted by the ghosts of her past and grieve over her family's losses, which she was determined to avenge. At some point, she was imprisoned in a dark mansion in Barbarian territory, guarded by the ghosts that haunted her. She was rescued by her lover Tarnum, who had come with his master Archon and did not recognize her due to her features severely decaying from her undead condition, although he kept her as his concubine. Lamentia soon joined Tarnum on his mission to rally the Gods of War into their service.
Once the Gods of War were freed, they demanded the blood of their enemies, the Sun Gods, in exchange. Archon took Tarnum and Lamentia near the Desolate Lands for the quest. While Tarnum was not paying much attention to her movements, Lamentia scouted the lands by herself and found some lost temples and tombs within that had hieroglyphics. The gods later suggested to Tarnum that he was suited to rule as the Undead King and gave him a scroll that would help him in overthrowing Archon. One morning, Tarnum caught Lamentia reading the scroll and was about to kill her in anger when Lamentia explained she wanted to help him and revealed her true identity. In the following days, she told Tarnum about what she found in the Desolate Lands and that the hieroglyphics from the tombs matched with those on the scroll, indicating the tombs could be the key to deciphering them. She pledged her loyalty to Tarnum and full support in his plans of rising to power as the undead king of Antagarich. Tarnum decided he would spend his future with Lamentia once he ruled.
Tarnum bid Lamentia to follow him during his search for the ancient city of Blackwater, which led them to the snowy lands of Bracada. After Tarnum ventured into the city, gained its powers and overthrew Archon, he and Lamentia traveled to a Bracadan region near the Erathian border, building a Necropolis in the snow. They aimed to capture the nearby castle in Erathia, which Tarnum planned to leave Lamentia in charge of for later when he himself would gather the artifacts to assemble the Cloak of the Undead King.
Lamentia and Tarnum defeated the defending wizards and knights in the vicinity. Afterward, Tarnum sent Lamentia to organize a defense of men from the captured castle near the Erathian borders and lead the armies recruited in the castle, though he knew she would not like ruling the knights that caused her death. As Tarnum searched for the artifacts forming the cloak, Lamentia mustered an army of Erathian renegades. Eventually, Tarnum ordered Lamentia to hasten her preparations, go forth and attack the enemy before they grew too strong. The death knights defeated the wizards once again and conquered the area. After Tarnum secured the Cloak of the Undead King, Lamentia began helping him in his quest for revenge on Rion Gryphonheart of Erathia. However, the combined forces of the Erathians and Barbarians rallied against them and destroyed most of their forces, even managing to kill Lamentia, whose body they destroyed and burned down.
Trivia[]
- In canon, Lamentia appears as a playable hero in Heroes of Might and Magic IV and is not the same character as Yalla.