Sword and Circle

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“There are still those who, even to this day, hold me responsible for everything which came to pass after Ferdan. The wisest of them hold their tongues when I’m within earshot though, I’ve split more than one wizard in two for lesser offences against the Crown of Raheen and I won’t have Morloch’s foul deeds laid at my door by anyone, least of all a whitebeard.

“The one question which still, on occasion, haunts my dreams is this: Would I have done the same, had I known the outcome, and did I have a choice? Those I love are kind, and tell me, ‘of course,’ but in the darkest hours of night, sometimes I lay awake, and I do not know… The pain of those days haunts me still, and that which is broken, even though it be repaired, is never the same as it was.”

The DarkSlayer, as told to the Bard-Chronicler Lyssa of Callodon

Three weeks had passed since the first full Council of Kings within living memory had ended in near catastrophe, and still the shock of those events was clear to behold in the aspect of Allazar, once wizard to King Brock of Callodon, now wizard to Gawain, royal crown of Raheen, King of Ashes.

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