>>5344268>>5344294You are searching the castle courtyard for a means of escape, to return back to Gwaith Camlann, the last and endless battle of The King Of Stone And Water.
Where the King fought and slew his misbegotten son, born of the trickery and witchcraft of his half-sister, yet saw himself slain in turn, and the fall of his kingdom.
Slowly, the unseen contours of this world become clear to you. The Blearie Queene is the illegitimacy of birth. Why is it that some are born to greatness, to beauty; to a life of ease, wealth and splendour, yet others have misery thrust upon them? Born poor, to terrible poverty. Born ugly. Born deformed. Born to cruel parents. Born to kind parents, who are then cruelly murdered. Born an orphan with no name. Born to slavery. Born free, but given to a life of usury and debt. Born to an accursed fate. Born sick and already dying. Born and forgotten. Born and given to another, born abandoned. Born of rape, incest.
You cannot choose to be unborn to such torment - when others are born to glory and joy. Perhaps there will always be Highborn and Lowborn. They just remain Unseen.
In the renaissance, learned men once believed in the superiority of bastards. A strange shadow of recollection flits across your mind, the forlorn Dwarf of a familiar thought - or perhaps you watched some popular play once, which tried to suggest such an idea, upon a throne of swords and dragon fire.
But the learned men of history saw that bastards were often better, cleverer than legitimate men, hardened through neglect and adversity against those born to a life of luxury and ease in their lineage. Why was this so? Could it have been in the greater excitement, desire and passion of their conception - a truer love, bastards begot divine gifts? Why did Providence not, after all, convey legitimacy through divine birthright?
It was a troubling idea: that heaven, through a mysterious caprice of birth, could misplace the fates of men.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom_and_Achitophel>The most common reading compares the connections between fatherhood and kingship:whether, inspired by some diviner lust,
his father got him with a greater gust
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_Rebellionhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popish_Plot***
And if such injustice of birth should occur - why, what then? Rebellion? Murder and blood, war, violent overthrow; or the crawling bloodless shadow of treachery, a peace of betrayal, conspiracy and complot?
Such times would call for a Usurper.
