MARK OF THE VEIL

Transcript:
Von List: That farm with the windmill -- the one in Merville, France. Doesn’t look very important, does it, Kortifex?
Kortifex: To me, Wolfram, nothing about your world looks particularly “important.”
Kortifex: Earth is just a stepping stone to my eventual triumph back in the Dark Aether.
Kortifex: I help you here, you help me get back. The rest is just... details.
Von List: Fair enough. But do you know what transpired near that windmill during our last global conflict?
Von List: “The Great War,” we called it. “The War To End All Wars.” Heh. Such optimism...
Kortifex: Is there a point to this, Wolfram?
Von List: Indeed there is. The First World War pitted outmoded tactics against unprecedented weaponry.
Von List: In just one day at that farm, ten thousand men fell as they marched in ranks directly into machine gun fire.
Kortifex: Ahh. That explains it. So much blood spilled all at once. It left its mark on the veil that separates us from the Dark Aether.
Von List: Precisely! The “weak spot” we are trying to exploit.
Kortifex: And the dead who fell that day? All those thousands of corpses?
Von List: Oh, they are buried nearby.
Kortifex: Not for long...