The Mare's Memorial

[Tainga 521]

 

Hᴏᴜꜱᴇ Vᴏᴜʀᴋᴇʜᴀʀᴅᴛ

 

Dɪᴇ Sᴛᴜᴛᴇɴ Tʀᴀᴜᴇʀꜰᴇɪᴇʀ

Tʜᴇ Mᴀʀᴇꜱ Mᴇᴍᴏʀɪᴀʟ

8th of The Snow’s Maiden, 282 S.A.

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Wes Thu Hal, Be Thou Healthy.

 

This is a greeting that has not been used in our family for a long time, but it feels right to use it now. A few of you have already heard the news, mostly those who were old enough to have known her. For the younger generation of Vourkehardts, this may be the first time you are hearing it.

 

My sister, Vanya Vourkehardt, has passed away peacefully in her sleep.

 

I send this message so the younger members of our family may know of her and learn her name, and in hope that my siblings—those still living but scattered across the world—will hear this and come home.

 

To family and friends, please come to Idunia, to the keep of Ardrossil. Many of you didn’t get the chance to know her well, or to share a memory, or a laugh, or a drink with her. But I would still like you there. We will light a bonfire and return her body to the flames, so the embers of her being may rise to the Seven Skies and join the stars of our kin. And to memorialize her, I will speak of my sister, of who she was, who she became, and what she would wish for us all so that she will never be forgotten.

 

Afterwards, we shall do what any family does when faced with a loss. Grieve.

 

[FRIDAY MAY 1ST 8PM EST]

 

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Signed,

HER GRACE, Ser Saelind Elwine Ardirnien, Matriarch of House Vourkehardt, Duchess of Ardrossil, Templar of Saint Michael of the Archangel, Knight of the Dawn, High Treasurer of Idunia, Steward of the Númenaranyë

HER EXCELLENCY, Athaenis of the House Vourkehardt, High Chancellor Emerita of Idunia, Eternal Steward of the Númenaranyë, Warden Emeritus of the Harren Court, Lawgiver of Harren, Mother of the Idunian Law, Founder of Grimday Day, Champion of the Lowland Grasp, The Lance of Idunia, Slayer of the Gilded Queen