Ironsides Family/Bowie/Prologue
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Demon of Dwilight, Prologue
Grand Duchy of Fissoa
"Fugitive of Fissoa"
Knight of Drowenton, Judge of Grand Duchy of Fissoa
Bowie, an intellectual and adventurer, travelled to make his fortune among the pioneering Dwilighté. He serves as a knight of Drowenton and the Judge of the Grand Duchy of Fissoa. Bowie commanded the Iron Toughs during a campaign against the Monster Scourge, this brave troop made their name during these battles. He became a legend when the story of the Iron Toughs final battle spread through the land. The Legend of the Three Knights of Iron, or the Legend of the Iron Toughs, as it is known, set his name in the history of the Fissoan military. As well as being a notable knight, the loving relationship between Bowie and his young wife Arabell is recorded in a tale known as Bowie and Arabell.
Bowie has since succumbed to avarice and has become a villain of Dwilight
The Fall of Bowie, the Rise of Black Bowie!
After a profitable tax income gave Bowie more than he could handle, he succumbed to avarice and decided it would be better to take the money and run than to give the gold up for the Fissoans. The council began to notice his absence and asked him for an explanation. This was his response.
Letter from Bowie Ironsides
Message sent to everyone in your realm (23 recipients)
Dear Fissoa,
I regret to inform you that I have decided to begin a new life, a better life, away from Fissoa. Using your gold. If this sounds strange or foolish, just think of all the things you could do with a sack of easy gold and then ask yourself the question, “Would I do it too?”
You question my honour, my loyalty and nobility. I question your vitality. We have been fighting monsters constantly for so long that we have ourselves become the beasts we seek to destroy. Mindlessly following orders, silently wasting our days, and following a mere gutless Duke. Any noble with half a heart to achieve with their life would kill to receive the gift I have. For I have been given an opportunity that no man ever easily receives. A chance to attain glory, a chance to attain victory, and most of all, a chance to take POWER!
This will be my last communication as the shade of a Judge. Next time we speak Fissoa you will be paying me tribute, calling me Prince! Calling me the Overlord! My name will be the first and last thing on your pitiful mind! You will fear me, you will bow to me, or you will pay beyond your means!
Remember what you see this day nobles. You may never see anything like it again. One more thing, I hope you enjoy my last act as Judge...
The rest is scrawled angrily…
The man deserves to pay for this, for screwing up his job! If it was not for his mistake this would never have happened to me! All of this is his fault! Only a demon could abandon his family! How dare you do this to me Samuel! He did it on purpose! You wretched prophet! You sent the demons in me!
You find pieces of a quill dried to the pages, it looks like the quill was bitten apart…
Bowie Ironsides
Judge of Grand Duchy of Fissoa
Followed by a treacherous act of corrupt justice.
Fine issued
Bowie Ironsides, Judge of Grand Duchy of Fissoa has put a penalty of 250 gold on Sir Samuel Quasath (Priest of Nomudou) for this reason:
"For a terrible clerical error, and for not correcting it before it was too late, I hereby fine you the amount I stole! Pay for my sins Samuel!"
Now Black Bowie seeks to find solitary confinement to live out his days as a shade. Unless he finds something better...
