In The Absence Of An Ealdorman
In the Absence of an Ealdorman was a virtual representation of one of Eivor Varinsdottir'southward genetic memories, relived past Layla Hassan through the Portable Counterinsurgency HR-8.five.
Description
With ealdorman Hundbeorht missing, Eivor went searching for clues.
Dialogue
- Before leaving to observe the ealdorman, Eivor may have talked with Hunwald.
- Eivor: Something on your mind?
- Hunwald: Eivor, I realize the strides you've taken to assist me. My oath to you volition last an eternity.
- Eivor: You'll owe me a blood adjuration when all our work is done.
- Hunwald: Blood? Dearest Lord...
- Eivor: Expect here 'til I return.
- Eivor may have spoken with Bishop Herefrith.
- Eivor: Can your god speak through you, Herefrith? Can he tell me where the ealdorman is?
- Herefrith: Our Lord is non a trained domestic dog who speaks on command. My goodness.
- Eivor may take talked with Abbess Acha, who was humming.
- Eivor: When did you last encounter the ealdorman?
- Acha: Get out us exist. It is not your identify to exist request such questions.
Eivor left to search for Hunwald's father and arrived at the hospice.
- Eivor: Hunwald's male parent was recuperating hither not long ago. Someone may have seen him depart.
As she entered the hospice, Eivor spoke to a woman seating on a demote.
- Eivor: Practice you know where your ealdorman is?
- Anglo-Saxon Woman 1: I can tell you a few things. Simply not here in the open. Follow me.
Eivor followed the woman inside, to a private room.
- Eivor: This is far enough. Tell me what you know.
- Anglo-Saxon Woman ane: O, I know loads of things almost our ealdorman. I know his favorite foods, I know when his bedclothes get changed, and I know he hates beingness bled with leeches. That sort of thing.
- Eivor: Only where has he gone?
- Anglo-Saxon Adult female 1: Ah, where? I have no bloody idea. Is that what you asked me?
- Eivor: Forget it.
Eivor left the woman and spoke to a man working on a scaffold.
- Eivor: You at that place. Practise you know where your ealdorman has gone?
- Anglo-Saxon Man 1: I don't. And if you like your hide where information technology's at, you won't enquire that 'round here again!
Eivor left the man and spoke to a female groundskeeper.
- Eivor: Where is the ealdorman? Did you run into where he went?
- Anglo-Saxon Woman two: I ... I ... I don't know. Ealdorman who? Sorry, I'm busy!
Eivor left and spoke with the head sis.
- Eivor: Are you the head sister here?
- Anglo-Saxon Woman 3: Yeah. And I'm not comforted by the sight of you wielding weapons similar a state of war master. We're a hospice, not a billet. It's bad enough I've got these armored codpieces watching me work. Now you...
Eivor speaking to a priestess nearly the ealdorman
- Anglo-Saxon Adult female 3: I'd be risking my neck telling you anything. And if my caput rolls, these sick and ailing folk volition follow me to the grave.
- Eivor: Your ealdorman would concur. And so the sooner I find him, the more quickly these prowling guards volition leave your hospice.
- Anglo-Saxon Woman 3: That's a pleasant thought. Our lord was in a bad way here, and getting worse, in spite of our efforts. Then, quite confronting my instructions, some guards moved him out. I overheard them talking about a bathhouse. There'south no working bathhouse in Lincoln. Then I gather they meant the one-time ruins just south of here, by the eastern walls.
- Eivor: Ruins merely south of hither. I volition look in that location, thank you.
- Anglo-Saxon Woman 3: I pray you find him. He's in desperate need of care.
Eivor arriving at the one-time Roman bathhouse
Eivor left and headed to the bathhouse and saw bandits within the place.
- Anglo-Saxon Man ii: Information technology wern't wise to let those Mercian nobles use our tunnels, if you ask me.
- Anglo-Saxon Man 3: What option did nosotros take? 'To the lowest degree this way, they'll leave us be.
- Anglo-Saxon Man two: They killed i of their own! What's to cease 'em from splitting our skulls also?
- Anglo-Saxon Homo 3: Crusade they fearfulness us, see? No one takes usa for fools, y'all got information technology?
Eivor got inside the identify a bit farther.
- Anglo-Saxon Man 3: Remember ... God punishes those who wish sick upon ... upon...
- Anglo-Saxon Human ii: Become on ... sick upon who?
- Anglo-Saxon Homo 3: Eh? Sorry, I was miles away. What?
- Anglo-Saxon Man ii: Christ Jesus. You oasis't got enough brains in your head to blink, have yous?
Eivor exploring the sewer tunnels
Eivor fabricated her fashion inside and found a route to the sewers below.
- Eivor: These tunnels run deep. Was the ealdorman fleeing to a hideaway beneath Lincoln?
Eivor was made her way behind a bandit guard, who was relieving himself.
- Anglo-Saxon Man iv: Ow! Ah! Dammit...
After dealing with the guard, Eivor constitute herself in the heart of the One-time Lincoln Sewers, where a couple of bandits were talking.
- Anglo-Saxon Man v: More than Mercians traipsing beyond our routes. Tin can't piss from here to Bolingbroc without someone enervating some ungodly deal.
- Anglo-Saxon Homo 6: All this traffic has made smuggling a difficult chore.
- Anglo-Saxon Human 5: Smuggling will always be hard. But I adopt information technology to paying tribute. Never again will we curve to the Mercian crown.
Eivor leaving the tunnels to a spring below a cave
Eivor made her way out of the sewers and out towards Roaring Meg's Spring, where Eivor noticed bodies and claret from an altercation.
- Eivor: There was fighting here. About what?
Eivor noticed and checked on one of the bodies.
- Eivor: A violent struggle between nobles and bandits. The bandits did not fare so well.
Eivor found another inkling on the ground.
- Eivor: A noble's cloak with the image of a swan. Looks like the ealdorman passed this mode.
Eivor constitute a locked door, but no primal nearby. Eivor establish the key at the bottom of the spring itself.
- Eivor: I know a alone door that would love to see this key.
Eivor went to unlock the door and entered inside, merely to find a letter on a table.
- A New Proposition:
Orvyn,We have received an offer from an unnamed Saxon requesting safety passage through the sewers to Bolingbroke. The amount is considerable, which leads me to believe they take something of slap-up value they cannot beget to exist seen with.
Insist on seeing what information technology is before accepting their offering. If information technology merits it, double the amount. If they pass up, impale them.
Lucian
- Eivor: A Saxon nobleman paid some bandits for permission to sneak through these tunnels on their way to Bolingbroc castle.
Eivor'due south vision of the ealdorman existence brought to safety exterior of the cave
From all the clues, Eivor theorized how the events played out at the springs.
- Eivor: Mercian nobles made a deal with some bandits. Paid them hush money to let them sneak through these caves. When the fourth dimension came, the bandits ambushed the nobles. Merely it did not end well for the bandits. In the struggle, the ealdorman's cloak was torn off. Simply he got away and headed due east for Bolingbroc castle. That'southward my all-time lead.
Out of the springs, Eivor found herself outside the metropolis.
- Eivor: Ah. Fresh air.
Eivor arriving at the castle
Eivor travelled and arrived at the castle, which was well-guarded.
- Eivor: I'm on the correct runway. That keep is well protected.
Eivor investigated and institute herself within the middle of the area.
- Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1: At times, I wonder what in God'south name nosotros are here for. Hundbeorht is his own prisoner.
- Anglo-Saxon Soldier 2: He's an sick man, leave him be. As well, nosotros own't got it too crude. We tin can hunt in the wolds of Lindsey and whore in Botolphston.
- Anglo-Saxon Soldier 1: Likewise right, too right. I've gone impaired with idle fourth dimension. Take hold of some ale, and permit usa skin some animals later.
After Eivor dealt with the guards, Eivor plant a note from the ealdorman to his son, Hunwald.
- Scroll with a Swan Seal upon It:
To My Immature SwanWe are blessed to be here with the Wolds of Lincolnscire. It is hither in the lush lands of Hatfield Chase where we exchange with the kings of smaller kingdoms, still with each their own glowing throne. As Aldfrith noted, the chase here is plentiful. Wolves, foxes, and even the occasional bear.
Recall we are Xanthous Bellies, from the Wapentake and teh ancient hollows, our sheep graze the mustard fields and our poppy heads make us happy, and when y'all hunt, remember that you are part of the long line of Anglian Kings of Lindsey.
Good Folk and Yellow Bellies from Woden to God
Your begetter Hundbeorht Rex of the Lindsey-Folk
Eivor plant and followed a tunnel going down and heard a vocalisation.
- Galwyna: My lord, you carried yourself every bit a true-built-in king, born in a time of wolves. You have earned a long rest.
- "Hundbeorht": Thank you, cute Galwyna. So firm is your loyalty. None know me as well every bit you do.
Eivor entered the undercover premise.
Galwyna explains the current situation of the late ealdorman
- Galwyna: There now, my lord. All is prepared. Shall nosotros brainstorm the washing? Eh? Who comes?
Galwyna turned around to see a confused Eivor and and so changed her demeanor.
- Eivor: Welcome, stranger. Are you hither to pay tribute to our Lord Ealdorman?
Galwyna showed Eivor a deceased Ealdorman, nether his banner, as flies flew around.
- Eivor: I heard voices as I entered. Were yous speaking with him? Does his hugr (mind) speak through you?
- Galwyna: I am not sure what to telephone call it, precisely. Words form in my mind, and I give them voice. Frequently, they sound like my dear lord.
- Eivor: Tin can I ask a favor of him? On behalf of his son, Hunwald?
- Galwyna: You could endeavor, simply he never speaks when others are present.'
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- Eivor: Your ealdorman is long by the days of good conversation.
- Galwyna: Yet however he makes expert company. I've been instructed to wash and prepare his earthly vessel.
- Eivor: Instructed by whom?
- Galwyna: Soldiers. They brought him hither as he protested, feebly. I did my best to make him comfy ... until he slipped abroad.
Eivor pondered what to ask adjacent.
- Eivor: Hunwald deserves to know the truth about his father'due south fate. He is owed an inheritance and deserves a risk to become ealdorman himself.
- Galwyna: All in good time, I imagine.
- Eivor: No. At present.
- Galwyna: When the guards put him in my care, I was told to go on all this a cloak-and-dagger ... until the appointed fourth dimension. When I asked who gave these orders, they struck me. I wish I could say more.
- Eivor: I've seen all I need to. Simply Hunwald will demand proof.
Eivor looked around the premise for any proof. Eivor saw berries on top of a tabular array.
- Eivor: Dried herbs and berries, crushed into powder.
- Galwyna: The time between my lord'south deviation and his burial is ... longer than usual. My lord must keep upwards appearancce for his upcoming rites.
Nearly the berries, Eivor plant and read a letter.
- Galwyna's Journal:
Left him hither, they did. Weak and fragile. Carried him by his artillery. Feet dragging behind. Dropped him on the floor with a thud. No way to treat an ealdorman. Not correct. Not correct. But no better identify for him, no. Lord Hundbeorht has institute his way into my company. My tenderness I will share. It is what he deserves.
Eivor institute buckets filled with unknown yellow liquids.
- Eivor: I don't know what this is. And I'd rather non enquire.
- Galwyna: Aye, I thought the same. Troubling.
Eivor saw and read a text nigh the liquids.
- Regnal Tribute Illuminated Text
The Genealogy of the Anglian Kings of the LindseyOur Kings who under God and Woden Ruled shall exist remembered. Their line is endless as the peachy sky every bit they rule the land of the Lindissi, for the Britons and the Anglians akin, nosotros kneel to them:
Woden
Critta
Cueldgils
Caedbaed
Bubba
Beda
Biscop
Eanfruth
Eatta
Aldfrith
Hungarth
Hundbeorht
Hunwald(last proper name is scratched out with a monk's plume)
Eivor investigated the ealdorman's corpse.
- Eivor: Foul. Rat droppings everywhere.
- Galwyna: Fifty-fifty in decease, my lord is a friend to all of God's creatures.
Eivor looking through the items, finding a brooch begetting the crest of Hunwald and Hundbeorht'southward clan
Eivor plant a box filled with items.
- Eivor: A box of musty vesture. And a brooch with no crest ... the house of the ferocious swan. This will do. I'll return this brooch to Hunwald in Lincoln. I hope this poor boy tin can withstand such ill news.
Eivor spoke with Galwyna over again.
- Eivor: Take care.
- Galwyna: And you.
Galwyna then prayed for her late ealdorman.
- Galwyna: I shall have you to your family unit catacomb at Nettleham inside Lincoln. There yous may lay beside your forebearers, the great and glorious kings of onetime Lindsey. Please do not desecrate our Lord.
- Eivor: I am Dane, not a cruel grief-monger.
Eivor left for Lincoln equally Galwyna kept praying. Eivor arrived in Lincoln'southward town hall, where she saw Hunwald, Aelfgar, Bishop Herefrith, and Abbess Acha discussing sure matters.
- Hunwald: Eivor! What news?
- Eivor: Your father is dead.
Hunwald giving his father's brooch, learning of his death
Eivor handed Hunwald the brooch.
- Hunwald: Wait. What?
Eivor walked to the rest.
- Eivor: The sigil of Hundbeorht'south firm. I constitute it near his body.
- Hunwald: No. No, this cannot be! He was strong. A pillar of Lincolnscire. He cannot be gone. He ... He...
Hunwald started to cry heavily every bit Acha went to panel him.
Hunwald weeping and mourning his begetter's death
- Acha: O, you poor boy. I'grand then, then distressing.
- Hunwald: I am a human, Acha! Do you hear me? I am a man, and I am my male parent's son. Practice not forget it!
Acha stepped back as Hunwald shouted at her.
- Eivor: Proceed steady, Hunwald. Yous're at present the caput of your house.
- Eivor: Another swan takes flight. Only I remain, concluding in line of ... dwindling nobles.
Hunwald turned away as Eivor pointed at the rest.
- Eivor: One of you lot knows more than than you're letting on.
Acha stepped towards Hunwald again.
- Acha: I'g sorry, Hunwald. I had already asked a priest to administrate final rites when your begetter disappeared.
- Hunwald: What?
- Acha: I didn't tell y'all sooner because I ... I thought by some miracle he had survived.
- Hunwald: You lot lied to me!
- Acha: You light-headed sobbing moon-calf. Will yous never grow upwards?
Hunwald left in despair as Acha followed him.
- Herefrith: Lord have mercy on that adult female. She should have said something. It was her duty to say something.
- Eivor: Hunwald was the son of an ealdorman. Volition he take his male parent's seat?
- Herefrith: The championship'due south non hereditary, just he can plead his instance before a shiremoot. Rex Ceolwulf must then ratify the decision.
- Eivor: We have a similar custom, what nosotros telephone call an althing. An assembly of skilful folk.
- Herefrith: With so many like habits, there should exist peace between our people and yours. Perhaps that begins now.
Eivor discussing the shiremoot with Aelfgar and Bishop Herefrith
- Herefrith: If I may be and so bold, I should similar to put my name forward. Under my care, the shire has found some peace this by month.
- Aelfgar: I will offer my name every bit well. My family has ancient ties to this country. And I am proud to say, I have forged quite a friendship with the Danes to the north.
- Herefrith: Proficient. My priests will spread give-and-take of the moot across the shire. We'll convene in a few days fourth dimension.
Aelfgar and Eivor took go out.
- Aelfgar: Exercise visit my estate, Eivor. I have something for y'all. Something I think you'll enjoy.
- Eivor: I'll find the fourth dimension.
Herefrith reflecting on his initial encounter with Eivor
Aelfgar left as Bishop Herefrith called for Eivor.
- Herefrith: Eivor, a word if you don't mind.
- Eivor: Is the word "Christ" or "pagan"?
- Herefrith: I deeply regret my churlish means when nosotros first met. I did not care for y'all as my God commands ... with kindness and honey.
- Eivor: Dear is a hard feeling to control.
- Herefrith: Yep, quite. In any case, thank you for putting this mystery to rest. I do hope nosotros will see y'all at the moot.
Herefrith left Eivor.
- Eivor: With Hundbeorht'south death an open underground, Hunwald's enemies may strike once again. I should detect him before they do. Acha went to panel him. I should follow her.
Outcome
Eivor followed Hundbeorht's trail to Bolingbroc Castle and constitute his corpse near his servant, Galwyna. Eivor later on returned to Hunwald with proof of his father's death and thus this led to the planning of a shiremoot for a new ealdorman.
Gallery
Eivor'south vision of Hundbeorht existence attacked by the bandits
Eivor finding the servant Galwyna
Hunwald speaking to his friends in the town hall
The residue of the group learning of the ealdorman'south fate
Acha going after the devastated Hunwald
Aelfgar inviting Eivor to his manor
References
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