>>6086461>>6086478>>6086806>>6086827>>6086867You took the decision to go to the room on the left next and saw that it was not as well decorated as the others, it was an empty room with some encarvings representing different things like a chariot, some dresses, a crown, a horse, jewellery and other things that were given during scenes to the queen, sometimes by the king itself. You quickly told.
-It was a kind of treasure room ?µ
Captain Crumbling answered.
-Yes indeed my lord, entirely furbished by gifts to the queen that she could use in the next world. It was entirely pillaged by adventurers several centuries ago.
-Damned armed vagrants, they do not even respect the dead. Burghers and guilds are a plague on our world.
This made Rose smile while she watched.
-Nothing seems scandalous at all, I mean, a chariot, horses, even a hunting bow apparently, some dresses...
Brother Louis added.
-It must have been a representation of the treasure that was here.
And captain Crumbling agreed.
-Yes, there was a treasure, see, here, golden cups, plates and many other rich ornaments for her... We even see the gifts given after death, the king is putting a model of a longhouse looking like his own on the tomb on this encarving to represent her home in the afterworld.
You had to admit that the room was beautiful and there were no clues besides the fact that the king seemed to love his wife very much and they seemed to enjoy doing many activities together. Rose seemed to find it adorable and she approached you, you put your hand around her hip while nobody was looking and she put her head against your shoulder. You thought about it, and rejoiced in the fact that even before you there was true love. But whatever, you tried to look at the other characters around. Some of the people giving gifts must have been vassals of the king, others were his other wives, or perhaps his mother since they were women with crowns. You decided to walk towards the last room.
The fact that only two walls of the four were engraved here showed probably that there was not so much gifts in these times, probably because the kingdoms were poor. You asked.
-How big was the kingdom of these unnamed king and queen ?
Captain Crumbling raised his shoulders.
-Nobody knows my lord, but in these times it was rarely bigger than a barony, perhaps half a barony, a part of the cairns in the unclaimed border between us and Someplace to the East, and one or two lordshiops, maybe a part of the baronial lands. I only tell this because since many generation buried their petty kings or lords in barrows in the cairns they must have been related but perhaps they were different old Bifurian tribes. You should ask an historian, I doubt that even our good Oldfossil knows the size of these realms.
Brother Louis told.
-Yes, their histories must have lied in forgotten oral legends.
