[HQ Ignorance] Re : Scene 60: The Angel of Mourning. Thinking time

Wed Apr 9 09:58:39 UTC 2008

Blushing and confused, Azhur looked at Icthya with amazement. Never in his life, he had been confronted to such surprising statement. Totally lost at first, Azhur’s mind began very slowly to rebuild an appearance of reasoning: Icthya was a walking plant; true humans couldn’t judge her with their own values. Around him, people didn’t seemed as shocked as he was, even Marianne was smiling at him with such brighten and burning eyes that he suddenly felt a powerful pulse beating him all along. Only his strong noble education offered him an acceptable solution... Azhur stammered it quite stupidly:
- "A ma-ma-marriage with Ma-ma-marianne? But who-who wou-would want something else?"

He took Lady Marianne by the hand so she could feel the strength of his love for her and his glance stopped on her delicious eyes.
- "Dear Marianne, I already told you once that I was a very poor courtier and this is probably the shortest courting period in all History, but you may testify that all short cuts have been taken against my own will. I’m now just standing there, in front of you, as a humble pretender to your hand... with the only hope that you will teach me the right ways to deserve it during our travel to the Gilboch Isle..."

Considering that he was already holding Lady Marianne’s hand with fervor, his request suddenly appeared quite intrepid to him, but dices were thrown... this done, his mind still bumped on the next part of Icthya’s proposal. Why was his name associated with the title of king? Of course, after all these travels outside Loskalm, he had achieved a very clear vision of what could be done politically to help all the western countries against the threat of the Kingdom of War and the feared next return of the Devil in one form or an other… but who in Seshnela would want a losklami for king? Who would accept such a doubting agnostic like him for leader?

With a hesitating tone, he addressed to the baron:
- "Are you really serious when you speak about the possibility of giving me the title of King of Seshnela? I know that, most of the time, seshenelan nobles have elected their king and sometime foreigners like the Good King Gerlant were chosen... But there must be better people than me for such an important task, people like you or..."

Azhur looked around, looking for other potential candidates: dead knights and soldiers were lying all around, wounded survivors were mourning up to the inner buildings of the fortress (even the philosophic Aalmon, under the loss of his lecherous brother, looked like an angering statue of gray stone), broken standards on the battlefield were the last sad symbols of the civil war... only a few remained from the arrogant greatness of the seshnelan kingdom during its old rokari period.
- "Well... I’m sure there must be someone able to treat all the different inhabitants of this broken country with justice and equity, able to negotiate with the different leaders of Ralios, first to stop their invasion then to negotiate a fair peace for both sides. Someone to make this land strong again and ready for the next coming battles, when the Kingdom of War will expand upon the mountains and will pour its slaughtering war machine all over the western world... because, alas, this battle for Segurane wasn’t the last, but the first of a greater war to come. You can be sure of that!"

--- En date de : Mar 8.4.08, Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au> a écrit :

> De: Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au>
> Objet: Re: [HQ Ignorance] Re : Scene 60: The Angel of Mourning. Thinking time
> À: "HeroQuest Glorantha" <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com>
> Date: Mardi 8 Avril 2008, 5h34
> The Baron speaks softly, "So Anzhur... Do you have any
> comments to add to your friend's outburst... I thought
> the Aldryami had a longer period of courtship myself,
> but circumstances are... different."
> 
> --- Loran <aillet_l at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> > I support the idea of Nic about lifting Telmori's
> > curse and Azhur can't accept to become a king when
> > his duty is still to save his own land form the
> > Kingdom of War.
> > But don't worry, Lady Marianne's love is
> bigger trap
> > for his courage than such an glorious position...
> > Loran
> > 
> > ----- Message d'origine ----
> > De : Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au>
> > À : HeroQuest Glorantha
> <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com>
> > Envoyé le : Lundi, 7 Avril 2008, 4h58mn 37s
> > Objet : Re: [HQ Ignorance] Scene 60: The Angel of
> > Mourning. Thinking time
> > 
> > 
> > --- Sam Elliot <samlelliot at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Nic Hughes
> > > <nicolas.h at virgin.net> wrote:
> > > > As we seem to be at a point where one set of
> > > scenes ends we have a bit
> > > > more choice over where we head next.
> Personally
> > I
> > > would like to follow
> > > > up on the "save the telmori from the
> curse"
> > thread
> > > and work towards a
> > > > major heroquest at the end of which we have
> some
> > > means of redemption for
> > > > the telmori - probably not a cure for the
> curse
> > as
> > > such but a known path
> > > > for them to follow to be able to live with
> it
> > and
> > > control the
> > > > consequences. Or is there  a defined
> story-line
> > > that we need to be
> > > > following right now?
> > > 
> > > I'm happy with anything-ish, FWIW. But, I
> just
> > > thought I'd question
> > > one thing here - I don't think there is
> actually
> > any
> > > obligation to
> > > lift the curse, is there? Or to do so before
> > saving
> > > the world
> > > etcetera.
> > > 
> > 
> > Both Anzhur and Aalmon (around scene 35 ) said that
> > they wish to "right the wrongs" of
> Talor's Curse -
> > and
> > now Karala is getting into that plot arc as well :-)
> > 
> > 
> > 
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