Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160102174454/@comment-25418438-20160125091737

Cassander walked around the rebel encampment, with Northpoints forces Emeric will soon be unseated from his throne and left to the mercy of the courts he thought. He sat down by a fire and unsheathed his weapon. Now was a good as time as any to clean his blade.

"You're doing that wrong boy"

Cassander looked up to see an elderly breton standing above him with a bemused look on his face. Cassander smiled "Uncle Kevan, I haven't seen you in forever!"

"More like 15 years, but then it was your brother who was good with sums." Kevan sat down next to his nephew. "I'd heard rumors that the spawn of Emeric was in our camp, i'm sad to find out that its true."

Cassander looked shocked "But why, once I learned Emeric wasn't my father and helped kill"

Kevan slapped Cassander before he could finish the sentence "Emeric was more of a father to you then that waste of space you used to call Uncle Beren ever was."

"How can you defend Emeric, after everything he put mother through with Damo and now that he has committed regicide?"

"I can't defend your father from these allegations of regicide but I will say he used to be a good man before he met my sister. Emeric would never tell you this because he loves you boys too much to pain you with reality. My sister...  your mother Alva was a lovely girl who grew up to be a women who knew what she wanted and how to get it. In this case it was the great and noble Sir Beren Auld. But Sir Beren was too wild for one women to tame and he refused to give her the thing she wanted most, his commitment as a husband. So she hatched a plan where she seduced Emeric and made him fall for her in an attempt to make Beren jealous, but it didn't work. Beren continued to fornicate with women left right and centre in between his little adventures with the Companions guild."

Cassander looked surprised as Kevan continued the story.

"So one night after leaving her newly married husband asleep, she ventured into Beren's bedchamber and slept with him, a union which nine and a half months later produced you. But Beren felt remorse over cuckolding his own brother, who at this point still looked up to his elder brother and wanted to emulate his success as a Knight, and vowed that he would never betray him like that again. This didn't please Alva who proceeded to take out her anger out on Emeric, turning his immense love for her into bial and using it to poison his very soul. She destroyed his dream of becoming a Knight and convinced him to enter the hollow world of politics and ambition. But after the birth of Rodwell, Alva shunned her husband once more, this time Emeric had grown frustrated at his wife's cold deameanor so that when on a hunting trip we encountered a lonely forsworn girl by the name of Tara, he fell in love once again. He and Tara made the most of their short time together, Emeric even promised to leave Alva for her."

"But he lied and he obviously didn't leave mother, uncle."

"He didn't get the chance, about ten months later he received word from and old Imperial friend of his by the name of Lux, whose scouts had been in the area looking for lost soldiers. A dragon attack had ripped through Karthspire, only a baby and its dying mother survived."

"The mother was Tara?"

"Yes. She was able to get Tiberius to send word to your father and we set out under the guise of a new contract with the East Empire Company. We were too late however and Tara had died."

"What of the baby, Emeric's baby?"

"You know what happened to the baby, Emeric brought him home and disguised him as an orphan who we'd encountered along the way back to Shornhelm."

<p style="font-weight:normal;">"Damo? He's Emeric's real son?"

<p style="font-weight:normal;">"Your mother saw the baby's eyes and realised the truth of his parentage too. She planned to poison Emeric using jarrin root and confided in me, I told Sir Beren to go to her and dissuade her from carrying out the plot, but he snapped her neck instead. When Emeric confronted him he told him to go fight in the war and never come back. I stayed for a while to make sure you grew up properly and became a Knight, but after the rebellion I recognised that my presence only brought Emeric pain and awkward questions, so I returned to Jehanna and rejoined a woman I had loved many moons before."

<p style="font-weight:normal;">"Why tell me all of this uncle?"

<p style="font-weight:normal;">"Because you need to realise my boy, that despite what you think Emeric has only ever loved and protected you. Remember that when you go to drive a dagger through his chest."