Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20170105222240/@comment-17114085-20170120214037

Heliaste wrote:

"Take me, instead of my son. My maternal love and my pride had threatened to cloud the very core principles of my beliefs. Duty must come before personal indulgences. You want a political hostage and I want to end this war with no more useless bloodshed. So take me instead. I cannot force this fate upon my child in good co, but I have experience in this. Take me as your hostage, let my husband bend his knee and take as much gold and as many men as you'd like. But leave my children out of these affairs. This is a war their father had started, against my pleas. They are innocent in all this, as are the men and women of Evermore. Let us end this now. I will be your hostage and you will show the world how you quenched a revolt with words, not swords. Would that fulfill your requirement of a ward?" She asked, still on her knees, but more determined than ever. She wouldn't be the stubborn mother, or the foreign queen who ran. She'd rather her life be dangled on a thread, as long as her people and her family were safe. Crendal was taken a bit back by her actions. "I must say, this was unexpected. I had thought all Tynes too prideful to bow in such a manner to anyone." He thought for a moment. "Your husband's army is marching in the hills east of here. With you in my possession we may end this war before our armies engage in battle."

"I suppose a Queen will be better than a Prince. I'll have to find a squire somewhere else it seems." He bent down on one knee and offered the queen a hand."I accept your surrender, Queen Jannia Tyne of Evermore."

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The Imperial Legion was breaking the Daggerfall occupation of Portdun Creek, freeing the Duke from their care.

Roderic was still adamant about ending this rebellion without taking sides. So he has his men not fight but instead intimidate the Daggerfall garrison into surrendering control of the town. He set them free afterwards, same as he had with the Daggerfall men from Markwasten Moor.