DarkenedKnight
Star
- Joined
- May 23, 2010
Many years had passed since the independance war, its horrors had long been erased by time. The carnage and desolation that servitude embodied was barely a myth, displaced by the power of steam and progress. The only remnant of the old world was the throne and all the devotion it stired in the citizens. That love was well earned by its ruler, King Adalbrecht, he was one of the very few to remember what brought the war to pass. The king wisely learned the lessons of his predecessor and treated his people as equals, thus they treated him with great affection in return.
The land of Daggarfall had the custom that royal lineage should only pass on through the female child, so that a woman would shape the future, not a man. When Queen Frey gave birth to a boy first, he was given to the kings brother and advisor, Astor, who was unable to have a child with his wife. Astor raised the boy, Alphonse, like a son to be his successor.
As the years drew on, the kingdom flurished and gained the attention of a distant king who sought only power and wealth despite having amassed an inconceivable amount already. Fortunately, the greedy dictator couldn't find a quick way to extend his tendrils of control into daggarfall.
But as with all things, even the strongest granite has cracks, and so too did the kingdom.
The land of Daggarfall had the custom that royal lineage should only pass on through the female child, so that a woman would shape the future, not a man. When Queen Frey gave birth to a boy first, he was given to the kings brother and advisor, Astor, who was unable to have a child with his wife. Astor raised the boy, Alphonse, like a son to be his successor.
As the years drew on, the kingdom flurished and gained the attention of a distant king who sought only power and wealth despite having amassed an inconceivable amount already. Fortunately, the greedy dictator couldn't find a quick way to extend his tendrils of control into daggarfall.
But as with all things, even the strongest granite has cracks, and so too did the kingdom.