MontFort Family/Bear
Well, we're in it now!
Lord temporarily absent (2 hours, 9 minutes ago)
An assassination attempt on Gladius Anima, Marshal of the Perdan's Murderous Wrath has left him seriously wounded.
- location cloaked*
--22:23, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
- ... so new, I don't know how to begin. So much with which I must become familiar!
I found some old papers. There was a note on the cover, saying I probably really shouldn't read what was inside. And then something ... something odd ... about how "friends come and go but enemies accumulate". It ended with "Better to become a monk!" Now, having just arrived here in Eldoret, and setting path to the capital, I find the temple of the The Triumvirate and, going in, found a message box, and ... so .. ... I'm mumbling. Better to mumble than say nothing? I'll leave a note.
--05:36, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- I've sent a note to my Liege Lady, Clarissa Yorke, Baroness of Eldoret:
In the documents that brought me here, a family heirloom, a book of sorts ... there was mention of "Lady Gwynyth Kazan" who, I'm told, was dear to the ancients of my clan. Might that name have some bearing on our doings?
It was, it seems, quite a time. Apparently the tragedies of that time drove her from stability into madness.
The faded parchments (some scorched!) that lead me to this place included a poem by Her, one snippet of which:
- PEOPLE OF THE NORTH! Enjoy the end of Oligarch, enjoy, feast and dance on the market squares, trampling one another. But hurry with eating, hurry with dance, care to trample your new friends, not your old family. Because your end is near too.
- YOUR' end lurks in the shadows of this victory! YOUR END awaits you patiently like a rat-trap with the most delicious piece of cheese inside!!'
- A reply to Lady Balkeese Indirik, Duchess of Castle Ubent, who kindly welcomed me and apologized for being very busy at the moment:
The old family documents that brought me here left me with a sense of this continent's dramatic turmoil, along with deeds of virtue, valour, and noble dedication. Do I take from this days events that the turmoil depicted was not product of fiction?!
--17:20, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
So! The old documents in my family's vault don't lie! The crushing of Oligarch's glory is presented as though the dawn of some golden age.
- "... the continent still was not plagued by the long wars of it's past."
This is how it's told in Alise's History. (Can Fontanian historians be trusted at all?)
So that's how it's being told ... Oligarch was trashed, and peace came. Ohhhh yes, something very like that. As the old song goes, "We were bought and sold for Northern gold! | Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!"
And now, with our King wounded and safely abed, even some who present themselves as realm-mentors are disrupting the good order. Hmmmm.
But my family name has already delivered a good; I have a liege! --00:16, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm finding that the old document's truths are no less true today than when they were set out. Fontan continues to cause war in the North, saying that the only path to peace is to be paved with wealth for it to pick up!
Letter from Mikhail Romanov sets it out clearly enough:
- Message sent to All Rulers of this world - Lords, Now that the long known secession has completed, I have declared war on the realm of Westmoor. ... Our war is only with Westmoor, but obviously Perdanese will want to support their new realm.
So long as Fontan controls the Northern regions, there can be peace. Such bollocks! --01:39, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
