Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20151010231236/@comment-5543592-20151012190944

As the dinner went on, there was a suddenly shout, like the climax of an argument, and across the table, one young lord picked up his goblet, and smashed it on the back of another lord's head. Except this second gentleman, while older, was much larger than the young man. The older man turned and shoved his junior in the chest, uprooting his chair and sending him tumbling out of his seat.

The fallen noble recovered quickly though, and Scire and Hawke would recognize him as Niels Morvin.

They both went for their weapons, but Ketill spoke, holding up his hand in a "cease fire" gesture.

"Easy, gentlemen." He said, speaking surprisingly calm in his naturally thick voice, "What seems to be the problem?"

"It is about that border dispute, my Jarl." The older man said, quite vaguely, but the Jarl seemed to know what he spoke of.

"Yes, Jarl Ketill!" Niels shouted, he himself sounding rather high-pitched in comparsion to his massive kinsmen. "Yinqr insists on stealing my family's land!"

"Bah!" The older man, now identified as Yinqr, grunted with an air of dismissiveness and spite. "It is empty.  I do not think your parents would mind me building on it."

"My father and mother are dead, Earl Yingr, and we know it was at the hand of your assassins!"

Their was a collective gasp by most of the nobility at this new addition to gossip.

"Hearsay." Yinqr replied with a shrug, like what Niels had just said was inconsequential, although he wasn't really fooling anyone.

Ketill glanced between the two and thought, before speaking aloud. "Gentlemen, was solve matters of dispute not like dog, but as men."

This meant a duel.

Yinqr folded his muscular armed and smirked. This was an outcome he liked. "I will stand for myself." He glanced to a nearby servant. "Bring me my axe."

Niels swallowed. There was no way he would defeat Yinqr who was a seasoned warrior. And his clan was poor and small- he had no champion to name.

It was very clear where this fight would be headed.