The Lion Finally Rests

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The Lion Finally Rests

 

13th of the Grand Harvest 1649

 

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After fits of coughing up blood Thomas Tarsington-Keint became sickly in his fragile state having fallen bedridden for a wound becoming infectious.

 

The once strong and fit man was now weak and frail, his face covered I sweat, turning his head to face his brother "Lope fetch me my sword" he said in a melancholic tone waving his hand towards him.

 

Ser Lope 'The Black Lion' Tarsington-Keint sat at his bedside, wiping the sweat away on his brow with a wet cloth, his face becoming stiff as he tried to hold back a few tears. “As you wish my lord" Lope said, placing House Keint's ancestral sword, Lionsbane, beside his brother's bed.

 

Tears would start to well into the eyes of the once proud lion, as he began another violent outburst of coughing fits, blood covering his boney hand as he coughed all over it.

 

Lope, sensing another fit coming, took a cloth from the bedside table handing it towards his elder brother.

 

Covering his mouth, Thomas held a cloth to mask the sounds of coughs as his most loyal family and officers entered the tent. For a short pause, for which felt like a lifetime, Thomas closed his eyes in deep thought.

 

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Now lying, on the verge of death, the ill Baron smiled in the sight of his most loyal subjects and uttered:

 

“My time has come, my friends and family. I may not of been born to rule Keintania, but I did my duty to my House and Barony. Each and everyone of you have served me well in life, giving me advice when I needed them most.” He looks towards his brother “Lead our house to victory brother, make sure the name of Keint lives on for an eternity” He takes another long pause, looking up to the sky, clenching his wedding ring tightly in his hand “I am coming to you now Mariane'a my love, and there we shall look over our sweet daughter.” Thomas would cough vigorously, blood splattering onto the cloth "I was never there when you needed me the most, Numa my adorable child but now i shall be looking over you, with your mother"

 

With his last breath, Ser Lope Tarsington- Keint lifted the sheet of the Barons bed, covering his brothers face.

 

Lord Thomas Tarsington-Keint passed from this life into the next.

 

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Rest In Peace

His Lordship, Thomas 'The Lion’ Tarsington-Keint, Baron of Keintania and Grandmaster of the Knights of Keintania.

 

(1598-1649)

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