#er!gerv

He swore, he always had some feeling like they should be fighting each other, whenever he bumped into this man. No idea why, even his critical eye could detect any issues with the man. Some memory lost to time, perhaps?

"Could anyone explain the lands themselves? I may as well try to explain the horizon to thee." He sighs, allowing his own eyes to follow the gaze out over the waters. "Perhaps t'is naught but capriciousness of the Greater Will to put it there. Or perhaps the creatures below simply needed a home of their own.

The words I heard of Godrick on the roads were hardly flattering as was. This, however?

Madness. Monstrous. How can anyone swear allegiance to such insanity? Do they not realize the evil of it or do they think themselves immune to be used as materials?

♧ — my muse about a specific event

Dos't thee hear? Apparently whomstever becomes Elden Lord woulde still be counted as Queen Marika's consort.

T'is a curious thing. There seemst little indication that Marika actually intends to returne, so t'is certainly no matter of practical arrangement. Of course, the titular importance remains.

I suppose t'is the nature of politics. All structures within the lands can falle but the titles willst fall last. Perhaps t'is a matter of invoking a certain sense of status, or perhaps the Elden Lord is meant to inspire hope that the Queen shalt return one day.

"A tad generalizing, aren't we?" He rusty knight muses. "Perhaps it's become so, with the poor leadership from Godrick, but I shall attempt a few guesses, if it'll humor thee.

Steel is expencive. Ift thou sees peasans invest their hard earned coin in it, something bothers them enough for it. Be that either a threat that thou'st not aware of, or t'is thee, who's angered the masses.

Nobles art only human. We fear as any other, for our safety. Those who art especially paranoid may fear uprising, over any particular part of thy policies misunderstood. Or perhaps that enemies have spurned in the minds of the commonfolk.

In the case of Godrick, I'd wager he knows exactly how hated he is, and expects the worst. As he should."

He chuffs. Though if he had his way, it wouldn't be any peasant uprising that got him, but a grim reminder of the legacy he was trying to rob.

"Majestic creatures, are they not?

T'is a shame most are aggressive. They would make mighty hunting companions.

"If these are the forces that were meant to answer Queen Marika's call, then she must be desperate indeed. Most o'em seem nary concerned with anything but their own goals. If Gideon thinks himself so a "senior" to the rest, then he's done poor job of inspiring action.

If he knows the location of all these great runes, why hast he not gone to claim some? Insofar as I know, I've got the only Great Rune of the Hold.

Especially the Hunter part.