AHAHAHA THE MAP FINALLY UPLOADED!

So yes, this is the map of this world, I hope you like.

          There was one final gathering at the Team Crafted base as the bodies of those whose lives had been taken in the war were gathered together in their respective armies to be cremated. Shrouds were made for each person, some burned by themselves if their owner had already been buried, others wrapped around the body as it was lost to the flames. It was a testament to how the war had changed the Lords as for the entire funeral, those who had once been enemies stood beside each other as allies to watch as the dead were honoured.

          The Snow Strikers were wrapped in snowy white shrouds that had a long dagger embroidered in the middle. General Andreas stood silent and watching with his vastly reduced army as dozens of the fabrics burned, Aramis' included. Anne's shroud burned in the middle of them all, a shroud for Herobrine beside her. His was the same as hers, but also had words of an ancient language sewn in by Steve and Notch, who stood a little apart from everyone else.

          Ty and Seto lay with all the other Team Crafted recruits, their shrouds a light blue with the symbol of the army on the front; a blooming fruit tree that swallowed up a sword, symbolising the end of wars like the one that had just happened.

          Hundreds of other warriors lay in their respective armies, each army with a personalised strip of fabric as the flames burned away the memories of war and sent the embers flying into the night sky. The hours went past and people slowly drifted away from their posts to sleep off the exhaustion of the past few weeks, but the friends and families of those who had passed on stayed until long into the night.

          In the following days, after only the ashes remained and were scattered to the world, the armies gathered up their men and their materials, preparing for one final march home. Lords shook hands with the Generals and other Lords before they left the gates, setting the grand castle to their back as they finally headed home.

          "Will you guys be going soon too?" Quentin asked Steve and Notch as the three of them watched the last few armies slowly begin to depart.

          The two brothers look at each other and Notch shook his head a bit. "I think we might stay here for a while. That is, if you guys don't mind."

          "No no, by all means," Quentin said quickly. "This place was built to be a home for anyone who needed it, so you can stay for as long as you'd like."

          "Thanks," Steve said with a grin. "In that case, since I'm gonna stay a while, I'd better start looking around."

          "There's a blanket ban on pranks that involve explosives of any kind," Quentin quickly warned, recognising the grin as something Mitch used to wear in the younger days (before he had accidentally destroyed a building with a 'little' explosive).

          "Then what's the point?!" Steve asked instantly, comically throwing his hands in the air. "Notch still has, like, 50 explosive charges left over from all the bases we had to blow up!" He struggled to suppress his grin as he mockingly shook his head, muttering how kids these days didn't know how to enjoy proper pranks as he left.

          Notch gave a sigh, his arms crossed loosely over his chest. "I'll keep an eye on my stock, but I highly doubt he'll try to use them to play a practical joke," he said to Quentin.

          "I figured," the General said with a shrug. "But it never hurts to double check."

          Steve grinned to himself as he faintly heard the end of this conversation but he continued his usual jaunting gait down the halls of the huge castle. He spun around a corner on his heel and instantly let out a "Woah!", side-stepping to avoid crashing into the person who had come around the corner at the same time and had much the same reaction.

          "Sorry Lord David," Steve apologised. "I didn't see you coming."

          "Oh no, it's my bad," Lord David said, brushing off non-existent dust from his jacket. "I wasn't paying attention, just lost in my head as usual. Hey, have you seen General Adam around recently?"

          "Last I saw him, he was meeting up with Seto's apprentices," Steve said, then he added with a small, thoughtful frown; "Are you going to be heading home soon? You have your base some distance away, right?"

          Lord David shrugged. "I do, and I will head off at some point eventually. I was just thinking of sticking around here for a few days at least, just to help the Generals get back on their feet after losing a few of their own. I know how hard it can be to manage things just after you've lost some key friends and helpers, so I thought I'd lend a hand were I can."

          "That's really decent of you David," Steve said, and he meant it. He had seen the multiple different Lords being at war for close to a few centuries by now, but small gestures like this one made Steve believe that people as a race could change.

          Lord David shrugged like it was nothing and kept up his walk. "I'd better go find General Adam. Talk to you later Steve."

          "Bye," Steve said, starting to walk backwards as he gave Lord David a wave.

          Lord David only became minorly lost on his way to the door of the castle but he made it several minutes later and he took a deep breath of the summer air as he stepped outside, taking a moment to stop and enjoy the afternoon. After that moment, he put his shoulders back and set off down the road, wondering where General Adam would be and then theorising that if he was meeting with some sorcerers, the most likely place would be in the sorcerer's building.

          He headed down the street, mentally mapping the route to where he was pretty sure the building was. He couldn't help but give a little fist pump as he got it right and he opened the door, knocking as he did so and moving in just enough to be able to poke his head inside. Several sorcerers were standing around the central table with Adam, and Lord David assumed that they were the apprentices, though he had no idea what told them apart from the master sorcerers. All of them stopped their conversation and looked at him when he opened the door.

          "I'll wait outside," Lord David said, instantly getting the message and closing the door as he backed out.

          Several minutes passed before the door to the building opened again and General Adam stepped out, taking a deep breath of the air, pushing a hand through his hair in a gesture that Lord David easily recognised to be stress.

          "Can you walk and talk?" Lord David asked, approaching him.

          "Yeah sure," Adam said, inclining his head a little and starting to walk towards the training grounds. "What's up?"

          "Actually, that's exactly what I was going to ask you," David told him. "What's up? How are you going after everything?"

          Adam gave a sigh and ran another hand through his hair. "We lost Seto and Aramis in the battle, as well as several other higher ranking sorcerers. None of the apprentices who are left are ready to be a Master but there's no one else to take the job so I'm just trying to... kinda help them were I can, you know? At least until we find another Master Sorcerer to be able to take Seto's place."

          "What about you personally?" David asked quietly. "Duties aside, Seto and Ty both were your friends."

          "I don't know yet," Adam mumbled. "I'm still trying to sort everything out to properly think about that and..."

          "And what?"

          Adam looked over his shoulder as if he was worried about someone listening in. Or if he thought someone was watching. "Something about the battle was off to me. I don't know what it was but... it just doesn't feel like the war is over."

          "Battle nerves," Lord David said with a wise nod. "After you've spent a few months at war, you get so used to it that even when it's gone, you still feel like it's right behind you ready to pounce."

          "Yeah I guess." Adam wasn't convinced though. This felt like something he had forgotten, like one of Herobrine's snippets of knowledge was nagging at the back of his mind, pushing for attention but he didn't know what that knowledge was. It was driving him nuts.

          Lord David had kept talking so Adam forced himself out of his thoughts and paid attention, catching his words mid-sentence. "-some training, my men are getting a bit slack, and I think that if they train alongside some of yours, they could pick up a few things. What do you think?"

          "Uh, I'd go to Mitch for that," Adam said, quickly covering up the fact that he had no idea what David was talking about. "He and Ty- well, I guess Mitch is just running the training detail for now-"

          A huge shiver run up Adam's body like lightning, starting at his feet and legs and prickling his spin, making the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. Instantly, his magical senses went bezerk, sending off warnings in his mind as he spun around, heart racing, seeing no danger but feeling it regardless as it tremored silently through the earth below him, the shockwaves dying down. Information clicked in his mind as his knowledge combined perfectly with Herobrine's to bring up a horrible picture.

          "General Adam? What's wrong, you look like you've seen a ghost," Lord David said.

          "Entity didn't die," Adam said quietly. "The red light was a difficult teleportation spell, a homing beacon of sorts to whisk him away before he could be killed, taking him to a secret place that we never knew about where he could finish off what he started."

          Adam spun around to face the slightly confused Lord David. "Entity's still alive and he just created a lot more warriors using a very powerful magical spell. That means that this magic synthesis thing, he's almost got it ready. The war is still on, David. There's still one more battle to go. We have to stop him before he can create more warriors and before he can finish what he started."

          Lord David grasped what Adam was saying and he nodded, his face set. "I stood with you at the start General Adam, and I'll stand with you now. I'll call my army and send as messengers after the armies that left, try to gather them back. They couldn't have gone too far."

So who actually thought that last chapter was the end of it?