✠ "Onwards Reyne, Onwards...!" ✠
Lucas Olivier de Reyne, Baron of Reyne in his last moments of agony within the sieged keep.
[11th of Sun's Smile, Year 157]
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✠ “Onwards, Reyne… Onwards…” - Sir Gaspard the Gallant ✠
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Upon the ramparts of the Veletzian Keep was stationed the young Lucas Olivier de Reyne. By his side, the man who served as his mentor, Sir Gaspard the Gallant as Lucas called him in his earlier years of life. His lord, commanding the artillery as if it was like breathing, caused a swell of pride and honor to overcome the young Baron. For, it was not the whistling of the ballista bolts, nor the crashing sounds of cascading rocks of trebuchets which rained down like thunder around their small squadron that caused Lucas to falter an inch as Gaspard shouted commands to their unit. Lucas, tasked with the menial but all important job of reloading their trebuchet, looked to the Knight-Lord with pride as he endeavored upon the task which he was selected for out of the infantry. Him, chosen by Sir Gaspard out of everyone assembled to defend the keep, was to be part of Gaspard’s unit of five men. As each siege engine was destroyed around them, their squad remained gallant and stalwart in their mission. One after another their trebuchets fell until their unit manned the last engine until its destruction towards the end of the artillery skirmishing prior to the battle.
Erupted did their bastion of wood and strings explode before them, and the wide eyes of Lucas looked to Gaspard for his command and there did Gaspard scream out… “Onwards Reyne, ONWARDS!...” Then they took to the air, leaping off the roof and down onto a catwalk which spanned the wall of the main fortification. Onwards, did they move, through the keep and down to the courtyard and with a firm handshake, did Gaspard part from Lucas. Then, the enemy arrived, entering the ruins of the keep that the Veletzian army took refuge in. Lucas met his foe head on, cutting down two men before there was a coldness which overtook his left leg. He glanced down and from the gap of his leg and thigh guard spurted a deep red crimson. His artery was sliced clean through and the boy fell to the ground screaming and writing in agony. Body after body landed atop of him as he shoved the corpses of both friend and enemy alike to the side with all the strength he could muster. Eventually, there was no use and with a thud, a slain woman adorned in plate landed upon him and Lucas could squirm no more. He remained, screaming for his father Sir John Sigismund and sister, Karina, anyone to come to his aid in those fleeting moments. Yet, he was unanswered and there he remained gasping for air as blood pooled around him. There was no longer the hope he once felt, no hope for survival, but those words of Gaspard rang true... “ONWARDS REYNE ONWARDS!!”. So onwards he went, into the eternal slumber, onwards his soul departed to the Seven Skies.
Baron Lucas Olivier de Reyne
Age 25
SA 131-157
“Ut quiescat”