Lost Genealogy

[VIROS 2915]

A wizened scribe brushes his fingers against the chest before him, almost quivering at the excitement he felt. An unopened archive of tomes and documents from the reign of Andrik Vydra, never before read or seen past the eyes of the martyred monarch or his scribes!

 

Tentatively he opens the chest, peering into the contents inside. Heavens above such a find!

The journals of Andrik himself, a documentation of the Schism Wars, a dialogue on the relationship between the State and Church! The man could hardly wait to dive into the works, until something caught his eye.

 

Wedged between a Thesis on Morality and a biography of Horen I was a book with a title that made the old man even more curious:

 

“The Lineage of House Blackmont, circa 1526”

 

The book was black, with bindings that seemed almost. . . new? Being the informed citizen he was, the scribe knew that the Blackmont line had ended decades before the mentioned date on the text, and he could not help but take a look inside. As he read through the pages, taking note of the short and violent lives that those mentioned lived, he paused on the very last entry, supposedly written by a scribe named Wilbur.

 

 

“Felix of Fairwater…”

Closing the book, the man remained deep in thought for several moments. He was sure he had heard that name before--could it be that there was yet a scion left in the line of Blackmont? Rising, he rushed to his chambers to study the document in depth.

Edited November 22, 2015 by VIROS

[Elad™ 560]

Moved to the Archive. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.