>>6113896>>6114495>>6114582>>6115061>>6116675Yes, thank you, the conference was yesterday, we may say that I gave my first official lecture at an university ! A glorious victory indeed.
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You decided to take the decisions in your own hands and asked the lady.
-Tell me Rose, is there something interesting on your lands ?
She answered you with a bit of irony.
-On all my lands yes, in what is left not much. It is only a village and a tower on the borders of the Cairns that are not anymore cairns and that we simply call "the great emptiness", we can ride for four days before seeing the Northern March, there isn't anything there, no rivers north of the waifue, no streams, no trees, nothing. Simply grass and infertile flatlands. My ancestors tried to conquer it from nomads. They built the tower to watch them.
-There must have been traced of battles.
-Yes, indeed, they tried to take the lands of my ancestor Notso Takable, but he pushed them back, then lord Hover Takable was killed by them and his son Nowgot Takable was killed when he tried to marry their chieftain's daughter. Then the fourth generation, Yourlandis Takable took their lands and exterminated them and impaled them to mark the new boundaries of his lands, founding this tower to protect the place. Since the land to the north is infertile the village of Lasthold is the last point of civilisation before the Great Emptiness.
You found it interesting, she had glorious ancestors. You too, your dinasty was begun by a companion of Charlemagne, Humbert the Throat-Slitter, a wise and good man who brought some faith to the Saxons and received lands in Champagne in compensation. You had too warriors and funny men like Eudes the Gardener who loved to plant "Human gardens" of saracens when they raided Aquitaine by burying them alive face first but letting their lower half to hang outside like a plant, and finally even some scholars of note like Thierry who was an Abbot that wrote against the strange decree of the IXth century forbidding the marital rapt and the efforts of some bishops to implement it. Was it not a good old Frankish custom after all ?
