○●Veritas Castle, Summer, 2nd January 1389●○
□■Ulf’s P.O.V.■□
"Brother!", I yelled irritably, "please leave me to sleep!" today was the day after my twenty-third name day and I was buggered, I hadn't the strength to move yet and one of my two elder brother's was continuously knocking on the old wooden door to my chamber.
"I'm sorry younger brother, but elder brother wants us both to meet with him urgently." I groaned and rolled off my bed to the hard floor, the jolt I received when I hit the floor was enough to awaken me fully. I dragged myself to my feet and walked to the bathroom. My Brother Rafe called out,
"Ulf, you have not the time to bathe, Seff is awaiting us!". This gain an even gruffer groan from me, I hastily pick the first set of clothing I found and followed my brother away from the room.
I was still grumbling and trying to recall memories of my absurdly large celebration last night when we reach the grand door to the war room. I was puzzled, why were we meeting in here, what happened, is there a war coming? Rafe burst into the room while I tacitly entered the room with caution. Every face was filled with irritation and uncertainty, not from the entry of the two brothers but from the subject at hand. My Eldest Brother Seff sat at the head of the table, his golden hair gleaming in the dim lighting, he had it cut short with a jewelled crown gracing his head, the green jewels making the green flecks in his sky blue eyes sparkle with life, it made him appear younger than his twenty-eight years of life. Both my brothers shared the same hair colour while Rafe had light aqua coloured eyes that looked more green than blue.
They took after mother, while I on the other hand had shoulder length light brown ringlets that were heavily tangled and coal brown eyes, I took after my father, Leidolf. They say I'm the spitting image of him when he was in his youth. The only difference being our eyes, him having light brown eyes while mine were the colour of burnt coal, the pupil of my eyes couldn't be distinguished from my iris'. My father was beginning to age now, and fearing his age would soon get in the way he crowned Seff King early last year. Father only attended to urgent matters in this kingdom, which is what really tipped this meeting off as urgent since my father sat next to my brother. Was war really a possibility? I decided it was best to just sit down and find out what was going on.
I sat in one of the two empty seats by father, Rafe took the seat right next to him, as Seff cleared his thought, "Friends, thank-you for coming on such short notice, a few of you already know of what the topic for today's discussion. Last night, during the festivities, I received a scroll from the royal kingdom of Mossley." at the mention of the evil kingdom of Mossley everyone became as still as a statue awaiting the King to continue.
"it in short stated that it will be holding a series of tournaments leading up to the kingdoms Royal Crowned Princes Twentieth Name Day. There will be a tournament once a month for the next three, the last will be the day of his name day. There will be three different types of tournaments running at the same time, one of the Sword, another for Archery and the Last for Jousting."
He paused and took a sweeping glanced around the room to all present before continuing, "the prizes on off for the champions will be an Earldom each in his borders. With the winner of the prestige Jousting event will also win the hand of the Kingdoms only Princess and the opportunity to rule along side the Crowned Prince, the future king." Everyone was stunned into silence. It was obvious what the Evil King was doing, he was creating allies, he was covering up his real motive, he was slowly stating a take-over again. Father then added,
"Seff has already dispatched 5 riders to the other kingdoms not under Mossleys’ rule to see if the will also participate, it is decided that if possible we will try to convince the others to jot join this tournament, but if that is a lost cause we will also enter and try and take back the wrongfully stolen kingdoms and try and unite by also taking their Princess. But it is a given that this will possibly be part of the Kings plans so we are gathered today to strategize as well as possible against this evil." Father really had a way of getting peoples attention.
