ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴄᴀʀꜱ ᴏꜰ ʙᴀᴛᴛʟᴇ
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Thereupon, the lush glades of Lorraine did a young man-at-arms rest beneath a golden-leaf tree, his sword leaning against the trunk as his solitary muted eye gazed at the high blaze… but as the sun’s rays peek through the canopy of that golden brush, that Eshænveurd would grace his face with that leather of his gauntlet, contemplating the past. The war has ended, and his time with the retinue of Lorraine has been long, his sword claiming many foes, but still he thinks about the day six years ago that prompted him to enlist under the magnificent Duke, Lothar d’Amaury…
It was six years ago,
That youth was even younger, a boy of ten, and three years earlier who washed up on the shores of the Burgundian Empire of Azuras. Still, he ventured to an event in the capital, in Little Lorraine. He was a child, unscarred, simply hoping to attend a festival. However… that day changed his life forever. The festival was small, with only a few in attendance, though the resident guards of Lorraine stood around, after the contest of archery finished in the borough, a flood of bandits attacked Little Lorraine and those who partook in the festivities of Saint Julia…
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He was a boy
He was armed with intellect and a simple arming sword. Cesári would rush within the capital of the Imperium upon spotting that horde, and there he found that band of fighters, that Holy Ser Corswain, that APA Warlock, and that Lucis of Trost. Three, those three would be enough, and that youth would rally those three to set upon that band of marauders…
However, while Cesári rallied men, the guardsmen of Lorraine were in trouble.
There were only two of those green-garbed soldiers left, one slaughtered by those brigands, though the ferocity of the Imperium had arrived, led by a boy garbed in a simple doublet and holding a simple sword. They leapt upon those brigands, the Holy Ser Corswain bringing about his golden sword of divine creation to strike upon one and bring them to the ground with that mighty swing of his, that Lucis grabbing upon his cerulean claymore, cold Thanhic steel pulsating in mists as it moves to swing upon that same brigand to give aid to that Holy Ser! However, there was one brigand who sought to fly about in a torrent, jumping upon his steed and seemingly fleeing the field…
But it would not be so-
For that, Robber Knight brought about a gleaming falchion wrought of that Adamantine Gem-Metal. Carbarum of a Black hue. That famous blade of the Eshænveurd house de Roeun, Gloire Drusque, the reaper of Cesári's kin. That robber knight would fly towards the carnage of that road, but immediately was sent aback by a lone behemoth acting the pikemen unsaddled that very Druscan, a gamble lost…
Individually however,
Cesári would be fighting as if his heart was giving out against a mad Dwed, a fierce berserker of clan Ireheart, fighting against that Savoyard boy and a guard of Lorraine, that Henri Carnelle. That Eshænveurd fought with the prowess that all a boy could manage, multiple stabs and a slash hitting naught but air; however, in that dwarven ire, the berserker charged upon that Henri, attempting to tackle them, though by way of dropping their axe beforehand, that Cesári soon sent a cleave to the top of his head- killing them in that final stroke.
Upon that Dwed’s death,
That Savoyard would surge forth upon the other brigands, that youth having slain his first descendant, invigorating his very being, rushing within the fray towards that Druscan knight and their great-axe-wielding huscarl, who joined in the defense of his knight. Both did those brigands fight with the ferocity of caged animals, fending off against that claymore-wielding Trostine Stormguard and that Automaton Behemoth, their armaments biting against each other as that ear-writhing screech of metal upon metal would sound within the streets of Little Lorraine.
The Holy Ser, finding themselves within a bind against their own foe, wrestling within the mud of those streets, however, through it all… That Savoyard spotted that blade, that fearsome blade, that legendary blade, that killer of his kin, that Gloire Drusque- and he sought to kill the one wielding it despite his youth. Vengeance was all that coursed through this boy’s veins at that very moment, and such was seen in his charge, for he lept over the table to bring his simple sword upon his target, that Druscan. Though… As violence is one with those of the Eshænveurd yoke, so is that of hubris, and that simple boy proved such. For in his folly, in his ire, that Druscan turned towards that raven-haired youth and made a simple motion to cleave that boy’s very head in twain…
For one of the final fledgelings of the line of Ashford de Savoie. . . all was near lost.
But a miracle was loosed from the heaven, that Lucis grasping upon that Druscan, that Holy Ser sending forth a blade to inhibit that Druscan, it trifled with that Robber Knight’s aim, and that Gloire Drusque aimed for that boy’s head, instead struck that very blade he held aloft to attack with- breaking it to splinters, a clean cut forming upon that youth’s face. He would die lest given immediate care, but with such care, he would live… That brigand soon was dispatched, his huscarl fleeing with his axe thrown unto the ground…
The battle was won,
But the only injured was that very child, Cesári Ashford de Savoie, with his face bearing the trail of a cleave from carbarum… Though once again, through a miracle, an angel shot from the heavens, flaxen of hair, the blessing of health coursing through their very fingers, all to simply nurture this boy to stability… and healed he was, brought back to the safety of the capital, where he would live to fight another day… and upon his recovery one would find that very youth fighting within the south, the the black flag of Savoy within his grasp, fighting under the green banners of Lorraine. And at the top of his lungs did he scream aloud that infamous warcry…
BLOOD FOR ASHFORD!