What I Learned Today
The thoughts, feelings, observations and general ramblings of everyone's favourite apprentice tactician, with a few conversations thrown in for good measure
Chapter 1:- Footsteps of Fate
First for today, cavaliers come in all shapes and sizes, I mean these two me and Lyn met in Bulgar are pretty good examples of this, first we have Sain, who's first instinct was to make an advance on Lyn when we ran into them, I had to stop my self from cracking up at this point, something about that sort of thing always has that affect on me, and next we met Kent, who seemed to be the one to level Sain out, which is a good thing cause that guy needs it.
Horse's may make for swift travel, but they also seem to make fantastic road blocks, Lyn managed to get the pair to move them, another note, Lyn can be damn scary when annoyed.
Lyn is actually short for Lyndis, Now I'm even more confused about this one, but at the time there were more pressing matters at hand so I didn't really have time to ponder how the hell this bandit knew it.
The battle taught me a few things as well, for starters is that there are still some people out there who care more about looking heroic than surviving and I will never understand them, The swift sword beats the clumsy axe, the flimsy spear is best by the powerful axe and the long lance beats the short sword, everyone knows this, so you think Sain would know better than to use a lance against the axe wielding brigands, but no, if Kent hadn't had a spare sword I swear we would've been burying the fool.
Next is how people with the same fighting style can still be very different, Kent and Sain are two prime examples of this, both Knights of Cealin, both underwent the same training, under the same general, and yet they move differently, Kent hits that bit harder than Sain and favours the sword, Sain on the other hand moves quicker than Kent and prefers his lance, this information is something I'm going to rely on in future.
I knew it! I knew Lyn was nobility, granddaughter to Marquess Cealin eh, that explains a lot, at least I can stop worrying whether I've gone barmy or not.
And along with the grandfather Lyn gets a nice and evil granduncle thrown in for good measure, it was him who sent the bandits after us outside Bulgar, we all need to get stronger and I need to become smarter, no doubt he has generals under his command that dwarf my experience massively, still, I wasn't the top of my class for nothing. Next stop, the shrine of the Mani Katti before heading off to Cealin, lets hope at least that goes smoothly.
After the battle and Kent and Sain's story of Lyn's Heritage
Sain "Ah what a beauty might we have here, let me see under that hood"
Tactician "Sain! *pulls down hood* I'm a man you dolt!"
Sain "Erm, well, you see, I hadn't see your face and you sound rather like a wo.....I'm leaving now!"
Tactician "That sounds like a very good idea, stupid feminine voice..."