A letter had reached the Abbey of St. Adelheid, the renowned temple-fortress of the Sisterhood of the Dauntless Rose. The contents of the missive were dire. Its sender, a distraught magistrate from a remote village near the eastern border of the Kingdom of Saxen, wrote of a putrid monster that terrorized the settlements around the shadowy wetland known as the Blood Marsh. He described a vile thing that was neither fish nor man but somehow both. The magistrate provided accounts of the creature's evils, of which there were many.
The first atrocity attributed to the mongrel was an act of murder. An aging woodsman had been found dead on the outskirts of town roughly one year ago, brutalized by something that left behind only a puddle of ichor and a muddy trail of webbed footprints. Worse yet were the creature's other acts of wickedness. The letter's author wrote in length of three particular assaults that had taken place in or around the murky bog in recent months, each detailing a violent rape of an unfortunate maiden by a walking blue-hued nightmare with bulging eyes and scaled flesh. Interestingly, the magistrate observed that each victim was a woman of a more voluptuous variety, suggesting that the fiend had a penchant for that particular sort of prey.
The monster had thus far evaded capture, undoubtedly escaping into the dark expanse of the Blood Marsh following each attack. The magistrate lacked enough able-bodied men to protect the local settlements from the creature, and he had not enough coin to hire mercenaries to hunt for the beast. Desperate for aid, he beseeched the Sisterhood of the Dauntless Rose to send forth a champion to put down the scaly abomination lest it strike again.
Gisela of Rugenstadt was chosen by her matriarch to be the Sisterhood's weapon against the monster. As a fully anointed sister-paladin of her order, Gisela had already proven her martial prowess and unflinching resolve in battle, and she was thought to be more than capable of smiting such a foe in single combat. Furthermore, both Gisela and her matriarch agreed that the blonde-haired beauty's exaggerated figure would lure the creature from its hiding place, if indeed the mongrel had an affinity for shapely women.
Gisela arrived in the village of Lendorf within a fortnight. Situated on the boundary of the Blood Marsh proper, the settlement of three hundred souls was a humble frontier bastion that straddled civilization and untamed wilderness. Lendorf was pitiful compared to the Kingdom's bustling capital, Rugenstadt. There were no magnificent buildings like the Abbey of St. Adelheid in this place, nor were there any congested thoroughfares teeming with life. Only a few dozen thatched hovels stood in the gloom, and they loosely circled the village's largest structure, a weather-worn wooden cabin that served as Lendorf's hall of administration.
The buxom paladin was received near the village's center by a single guardsman. He was a stout man who appeared to be in his late thirties, and he wore a brown gambeson with a tattered black cloak. In his right hand he clenched a spear.
"Halt! Who goes there?" the guardsman forcefully barked as Gisela approached, loudly striking the ground with the butt of his weapon.
The ferocity of the man's shout caused Gisela to stop abruptly. Such a subtle recoil was still enough to set into wobbling motion the paladin's enormous ass cheeks, the well-toned spheres being so amply padded with soft flesh that they jiggled at the slightest provocation.
"Greetings and well met," the buxom blonde addressed the guardsman. "I am Gisela, paladin of the most holy order of the Sisterhood of the Dauntless Rose. At the request of your magistrate, I was dispatched to aid this village in its hour of need."
Gisela produced the letter sent from the magistrate to the Abbey, drawing it forth from a leather pouch and handing it to the guardsman.
A swarm of villagers emerged from their thatched hovels and observed Gisela from afar, assessing the living hourglass of a woman as she conversed with the guardsman. She was tall and beautiful, with radiant skin unblemished by age or toil. The mysterious visitor carried herself proudly -- befitting her regal features and majestically long flowing hair of golden wheat -- though it was obvious by her garb that she was no woman of nobility. A number of watchful eyes lustfully fell upon the impossibly large mountains that were Gisela's breasts, while others gazed upon the outsider with suspicion.
The blonde-haired arrival looked a warrior to those who inspected her; she was well-muscled and she carried upon her back a weapon of war, a massive hammer with a head of steel and a haft of solid oak. However, she wore something that could hardly be described as armor. Gisela's attire was highly obscene and equally impractical, leaving the immense curves of her impossibly voluptuous figure prominently unguarded. Two tiny triangular steel plates just barely obscured Gisela's small, pink nipples, and a narrow strip of steel below accomplished little beyond hiding her sacred grove. Gisela's incredibly large buttocks -- two mountainous cheeks of extraordinary size -- easily swallowed the paladin's armored thong. While the warrior-woman did wear proper platemail greaves and gauntlets, Gisela appeared more like an armed courtesan than an anointed paladin of an illustrious sorority.
"Your magistrate speaks of a vile monster lurking in the Blood Marsh, a nightmarish beast of carnal sin and depravity. The Sisterhood has guarded the Kingdom of Saxen from such abominations for centuries, and we hear the pleas of the innocent and defenseless," Gisela proudly proclaimed with a certain air of magnanimity.
The paladin's statement was met by silence, her message lost on the guardsman who seemed hopelessly distracted by her deep cleavage.
"I have been sent as the Sisterhood's champion in vanquishing this evil," Gisela continued with a louder tone -- loud enough to disturb the guardsman's staring. "Allow me to go forth and deliver justice for the unfortunate souls befouled by this aberration."
The guardsman gave Gisela a reluctant nod, beckoning her to proceed past the village and into the bleak bog beyond. He craned his head to ogle the paladin's fat, wobbling ass cheeks as Gisela continued past him, marveling in bewilderment at the sheer size of the warrior-woman's backside. To an untrained eye the paladin seemed bottomless when seen from behind, so hidden was her armored thong between the immense spheres of her buttocks. The guardsman and the nearby villagers watched as the proud paladin followed the dirt path beyond the outskirts of the town and into the Blood Marsh proper, where solid ground gives way to soft peat and squishy mud. The blonde-haired beauty gradually disappeared into a wall of fog as she ventured forth, her massive, jiggling ass vanishing from sight as she crossed the veil from civilization into a den of evil.
It was midday when the buxom paladin pierced the insubstantial barrier between the two worlds, but the golden light of the sun struggled to illuminate the murky wetland. Ancient trees shielded their home from the intrusive glow with their colossal gnarled branches, shrouding the Blood Marsh in an unending darkness.
'This place is a lair of melancholy and nightmares,' thought Gisela as she studied the blackened canopy of the desolate bog.
A luminous hourglass of wobbling flesh lost in a labyrinth of mud and shadow, the Saxen beauty wandered the ominous swamp for hours in search of her quarry. She diligently inspected her surroundings as she walked deeper and deeper into the endless muck, hoping to find some sort of clue that might lead her to her prey. The melon-breasted blonde was no ranger or scout, but she had learned rudimentary tracking techniques in her youth as an initiate of the Sisterhood.
Gisela's training ultimately proved fruitful and the beautiful, fat-assed paladin discovered a promising trail leading to the northeast. The tracks were left by something that clearly was not human, evidenced by impressions of what appeared to be webbed, three-toed feet. Brandishing her hammer, the young woman followed the trail with a watchful eye. The path took Gisela on an awkward journey through mud and moss for another hour until, finally, it led her to a hideous discovery.
It was a vile mockery of life that joined man and monster, and it was the very same abomination detailed in the magistrate's missive to the Abbey. The creature was but a hundred paces from Gisela but it seemed unaware of the paladin's presence, greedily feasting upon a dead animal near a large pool of blackened water. Its head resembled that of a deep-water fish but with bulbous yellow eyes and a drooling maw of countless spear-like teeth. The aberration's glistening skin was textured with scales of pale blue, and its disproportionately large fingers were adorned with nightmarishly long claws.
With luck -- and Wōdun's favor -- Gisela hoped to catch the dread creature unawares and fell it with a mighty blow before it could react.
'Your time is at an end, monster. You shall not defile another woman so long as I draw breath. Wōdun, grant strength to your servant so that she might deliver justice this day,' Gisela silently growled.