You're just a treant. You didn't vote for the World Tree, you just live there. One day a druid comes - he's recruiting for the Sentinel/Radiant. Join the army, spend 2 years living the Melee Barracks and fighting the Scourge, you'll learn job skills, and when you get out they will pay for you to go back to college and you can get that B.S. in Forestry you wanted to get but you had to stay home and work at the Shrine instead because you couldn't afford it. So you and your three best friends join up.

The war begins. We're going to whoop their undead asses. You meet 5 magical leaders, they will divide the army up into a 3 prong attack and crush the Scourge once and for all!

But wait - the generals aren't sending the big Sentinel army. They are just sending your squad - 4 treants who just finished basic training, and your druid sargent. You're on your own in Mid Lane. You'll get reinforcements in a minute or two, they promise. You don't understand why you're going alone. You didn't train for this. Your little group is going to get wiped out.

But wait, that's okay, there's an Ember Spirit. He just told the team 'solo mid or I feed'. Good, he will come with us. We can't lose with a giant flaming bear on our team.

We march out, and the battle begins. We engage four ghouls and a necromancer - it's an even fight. One of the ghouls is about to die, and our heroic Ember Spirit steps in and cleanly slices it's head off with a flaming sword. We are taking losses but we are winning. The ghouls and the necromancer team up on Tommy. He's a rough and tumble treant from the Top Lane Shrine, but against a combined fire he starts to go down. However, the enemy hero, a Dwarven Sniper, shoots him in the head.

There's three of us left on both sides. We are fighting with renewed vigor. We kill a ghoul, and Ember Spirit kills one. For some reason, the enemy Dwarven Sniper has held it's fire. As we finish off the ghoul, Danny is greviously wounded. Ember Spirit walks over - good, he's got medic training, he's going to heal Danny. But no, he unsheathes his flaming sword, and plunges it into Danny's heart. Danny has time to utter one character - a single '!' then he is gone. George and I are both screaming. Why did our hero kill our friend? We stand there in shock, then the ghoul rips off George's leg. As he's writhing on the ground in pain, the enemy Dwarven Sniper shoots, and Danny's head explodes in red mist. This can't be happening. I've known Tommy, Danny, and George since we were saplings. Where are the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reinforcements? Why has our hero betrayed us?

I snap back to reality when I hear the gunshot. It hits me in the arm. It's bleeding, but not fatal. I see the Ember Spirit running over. I am not getting fooled again, I know why he is here. "Hero" is a lie. War is hell. As I see his flaming sword swing towards my head, I shout out '!'