A new bedtime story.
Once upon a time, there was a great and generous people who followed their greed and fell under the rule of an evil tyrant to their dismay. There came a time when, having cast off all their honor and ignoring their fondling gods, they chose a much weaker enemy in their arrogance and distain. The faithful chorus warned to no avail. Then on the eve of battle, they were abandoned by the gods. That night, in a bleak and desolate place their armies set forth not to meet their meager foe in the wilderness, but their own unworthy fate accompanied only by the wind...