Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20170105222240/@comment-17114085-20170123143939

"Indeed, the oldest structure on Nirn. Said to be quite the magical place." Marcel said. "Though the Direnni are pretty picky on who gets to land on their island."

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Virene opened the door. "Come in." The girl had cheered up since she had been rescued days ago. Her bruses were now barely visible and her emotional scars had started to heal as well thanks to the kind Knight.

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Jovron was sitting at his desk, looking at the sealed Lariat letter on the table.

He was a bit on edge these days, as both the Ondres and the Eardwulfs had not yet arrived with reinforcements. Word was that Rallaume was near the city. Due to arrive any day now. The Stentors had been training new guards but they weren't enough to defeat an army.

"We'll need to focus on archery, and get boulders to throw down the walls at the attackers. I'll have Duke Cirges work on that on the morrow." He muttered to himself.

He got up and walked over to the window, then looked back at the letter. He rushed over tha picked the thing up. "Why am I so afraid to open it." He said to himself. He had butterflies in his stomach and his hand shook a bit. He didn't know why, but his subconscious made him afraid of whatever it was that was written on the letter.

"Damn it all." He snapped and broke the Lariat seal. "I shouldn't be afraid of a letter."

He saw two pieces of paper inside the envelope. He pulled one out and read it.

Beloved Cousin, 

''I know that what I ask you is hard, but you must do it for High Rock. What happened in Valenwood wasn't what I intended, but it happened. Now the woman I had loved for a brief time during the 2nd Great War is back, here in Shornhelm, wanting me to take responsibility for our child. The consequence of our time together in Valenwood caused her to be thrown out by her family. She had nowhere left to turn but here, but I cannot help her. If it becomes known that I loved an Aldmeri Dominion Justiciar...it would bring great shame to my family and might cause problems for Daric during his campaign against the Tyrant Augurius.''

''Please, Edgar. Please take this child as your own. Raise him as your bastard so that I can save my family from my own shame. I am sending Linwen to Jehanna with the boy. Promise me, Edgar. Promise that you will care for him. Do this for me, do this for little Jovron. My father has already expressed the desire to make this go away. If you don't take them in I fear that he will kill them both.''

Your cousin, Gaban Lariat.

Jovron looked at the letter in disbelief. "This...this can't be true." He put the letter down on the table and took the other one from the envelope.

In the name of Gaban Lariat, High King of High Rock

''Due to the absence of a legitimate heir to the High Rock throne, for my wife Abelle La Rouche has yet to bear me any living children, and for the security of both the province of High Rock and the Lariat Family, I, Gaban Lariat, hereby legitimize my bastard son as a lawful heir. He is to inherit all my lands and titles as would any trueborn son, despite his illegitimate birth.''

''He was raised by my beloved cousin, Edgar Stentor, and under the watchful eye of his mother Linwen, as a Stentor. But in truth a Lariat. Conceived in a prison camp in Valenwood during the 2nd Great War, Jovron Lariat is of my blood. With this decree my bastard, Jovron Lariat can claim his birthright.''

Signed, Gaban Lariat of Shornhelm.

Jovron couldn't believe it. Was his whole life a lie? He tossed the letters aside and went to sit by the fire. Like when he learned that Arie was dead...this was too much for him to handle all at once. As he stared into the flames he kept coming back to one thing from the letters. "Linwen...my mother. She was here watching over me." He tried to think back, back to his childhood. He recalled an Altmer woman, the only one to serve the castle in all his time here. He couldn't recall her face, nor what happened to her. "If..if I find my mother she can tell me the truth."