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| | [[Kazan Family/Gwynyth/Secret|The Secret of My Heart]] | | [[Kazan Family/Gwynyth/Secret|The Secret of My Heart]] |
| | + | Waylander, brother of High Marshal Eagles Reach, Hero of Caligus, send the letter to Lady Gwynyth the day of Eagles Reach's death, revealing the last words of Eagles Reach and the secret of his hearth. |
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| − | <b>Letter from Waylander, brother of High Marshal Eagles Reach, Hero of Caligus, dated with the day of Eagles Reach's death:</b><br><br>
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| − | Queen Gwynyth,<br>
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| − | I recieved this a short time ago:<br><br>
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| − | <i>Dear Brother,<br>
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| − | My time grows close, the old woman was right I will meet my end in Aestus, how did she ever know. I wish I had never asked her about the future but you know me could never stay quiet for long. <br><br>
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| − | I will miss you, I will miss seeing an end to a war I fought to win, I was not always right but I stand behind my decisions, my only regret never telling her, I have kept it a secret for so long, just a glimps used to fill my heart, set the pulse racing. <br>
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| − | Paragon must be kept the next High Marshal of Caligus must use it. You know that the sword is much more than a sword. <br>
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| − | I will go now the time approaches I can the banners, we will try to protect the walls. Any way send my love to the family until we meet again in the hall.
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| − | Everything is so clear,<br>
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| − | Eagles Reach,<br> High Marshall of Caligus.</i><br><br>
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| − | My lady the "her" in the letter is you, I do not know if you knew. <br>
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| − | He had started to babble a little in the letter I doubt it was with fear, it seems more like excitment. I hope he out up a good fight and that many suffered at his hand. <br><br>
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| − | As the Con Doin faith dictates I have mourned him and now I must move on I sent a message to our half brother "Revelation" (truth be told he was found as a babe from one of the battles and written into the Con Doin family) when he comes it will be to Caligus after all it was and is out ancestral home.<br><br>
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| − | I bid you good night, may he that was rest in peace.<br>
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| − | WAYLANDER (Knight of Brive)
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| − | <b>Queen Gwynyth's reply, the same evening</b><br><br>
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| − | <i>Waylander,<br>
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| − | it is the most sad day in my life, I cannot stop tears running. The news of his death rip my heart in shreds in pain. I must stand tall in front of my people when I wish to cry out my despair.
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| − | I always claimed that the realm is more important than my private feelings. Now I hate the crown on my head because it stopped me from revealing the deepest secrets of my heart. It is too late now, the sweet words remain unspoken.
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| − | Waylander, thank you for your words of consolation, thank you for revealing me HIS words. I hope you join us in the celebrations of tomorrow, it will be a very difficult day for me, the burden of rulership is killing me...
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| − | Lady Gwynyth<br>
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| − | Queen of Caligus</i>
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| | [[Kazan Family/Gwynyth/Funeral|The Death and Funeral of Hero Eagles Reach]] | | [[Kazan Family/Gwynyth/Funeral|The Death and Funeral of Hero Eagles Reach]] |
| | + | The day of Eagles Reach' funeral as remembered by Lady Gwynyth. |
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| − | ==The Death and Funeral of Hero Eagles Reach==
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| − | Lady Gwynyth spends a sleepless night by the window in her room, watching the night sky and the stars disappearing one by one - the sign of approaching dawn. She didn't even try to get some sleep, not after such day.<br><br>
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| − | Strange how little she remembers of the events of this day. Only some bright points. She remembers uncommonly silent four servants helping her dressing the long and heavy dress of black velvet ornamented with the gold lions embroidery. She remembers that she spent the long time in the palace chapel to pray before the funeral, so long time that when she entered the cathedral for the ceremonies, everyone else was already there and waiting.<br><br>
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| − | She remembers a dark-brown coffin in front of the altar where she stood and the people gathered around expecting her speech while she could not speak of pain. Finally, after a while she spoke:
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| − | "Eagles Reach, you said your wish would be to see the end of the war. But not such an end you meant. I hope you've found the real peace instead as I hope to see the real end of the war.
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| − | Rest in peace, hero of Caligus".
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| − | She hardly recall what was happening next, she remembers standing in the open air under the elm tree, the same dark-brown coffin in front of her and people around. One by one they approached the coffin for their last words throwing their knives into the hole but what were they saying and swearing she does not know anymore. She remembers the full sun and the wind playing with the leaves of the elm tree, changing the half-shadow patterns on the people faces. She turned her face toward the sun closing her eyes when the diggers lifted the coffin up and dropped gently into the grave. The rustle of the leaves on the wind mixed with the sound of soil falling on the coffin........
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| − | The sky turned pink already when a servant entered her room to wake her up and surprised seeing her not sleeping at all said: "My Lady, it is time to go, everything is ready, avant-garde just departed to Supra".
| + | [[Kazan Family/Gwynyth/Son|Return from the Grave]] |
| | + | Some years later a new young knight appeared in Domus claiming to be a son of Lady Gwynyth and General Eagles Reach. Gwynyth doesn't hesitate nor stop to find the truth about this man and to discover if he is indeed her lost son, born during the siege of Domus, kept in secrecy by the Order of Sanctus Acies and considered to be dead as a baby during the evacuation of the castle. |
