THE FEAST OF THE BRAVADOS

The Feast of the Bravados. A fascinating poem about heroes. Gold Kingdom, new day Minorca in its glory was no older than three scores, when Mosort Goldmort Puk Shinidei ascended the throne of his fathers. With the darkness that ravaged the reign of Alarien-Eserys Goldmort Puk Shinidei, who history will remember as Alarien-Eserys Kehiratus, or Alarien-Eserys the abominable, for those that don't understand Suwella-the native tongue of Minorca. The people believed and hoped that depravity didn't run in the blood. A fool's hope, you might say. Just as a lion will always give birth to a lion, so as wickedness can only spawn...well, wickedness.

Only this time, it wasn't the blood of Goldmort that dispensed it. But rather the hand of Si Goldmort Wuji Saida-Shinidei-Or Saida-Shinidei Vi'hoki, the Red Queen.

Till this day, there are people who blindly support the cause of the Red Queen. Naming her, the worthy faithful of Tehei Menos-the religion of the five gods. Believing her purge to be justified. The former Shinidei had spat on the gods of his fathers, and erected a temple to serve his gods-The Xei gods. Si Wuji, a former sister of Tehei Menos Voladi was merely restoring back her gods' former glory. And their greed and spite for everyone else-as it turns out.

I guess killing the former Saida-Shunudei, the Alar'Barun, and the Saida-Barun. Drugging her husband-the Shinidei, enslaving a tribe, outlawing practice of any other religion, increasing the taxes. And not to forget the bid to sell the Gold Kingdom back to the Great Burustota Empire. Are all justified means.

When a coin is tossed, either the head or tail suffers. In the Gold Kingdom, the coin had landed again on Tehei Menos. The faithful flourished. The Chaplain and the Sisters flourished. The Aarbart of the Anointed Militia flourished. Every condescending loyalist of Si flourished. The rest, suffered.

But that was going to change. With just the right motivation. The dead body of Osasara Goldmort Saida-Barun.