If your reading this and you know nothing about Tortall, well then you need to get a clue. However if you are reading this and you know nothing about Maren then I shall tell you what has been reviled to me...
Maren: a large, powerful country east of Tusaine and Tyra; the grain basket of the Eastern lands,
with plenty of farms and trade.
So as you can see that is very non-explanatory about it. And to my knowledge there is no further mention of this country in any of the books. (If you look in the Lioness books you can see part of it on a map.)
Every thing else you will find out from my story... if there is some where in the books where it mentions Maren then please tell me where that is, unless it says something about it then I have the right to make it want it to be... now on to the
.:Prolog
Sheekoto cursed her self for the thousandth time over, cursing her self will, her wanting to prove that she could do something on her own. She couldn't have just stuck to the plan, stayed with her guard's who were there to protect her. 'NnnOooo' she said, pushing a strand of her jet black waist length hair away from her piercing sapphire blue eyes. This in turn caused her so slow her stride, and then earned the ropes that bound her hands a sharp yank, nearly making her 5'7" frame to topple into the mud. Cursing her self again, this time in Yamani, half of the words she wasn't supposed to know but that didn't stop her form knowing them.
Sheekoto, Koto to friends and family, had just returned from her summer stay with Keladry of Midland. The first known lady knight in over a century, well that was when she started out, so far there had been two lady knights after her. Sir Fianola of Tellerun(1), and Sir Tiami of Mountainpeek(2), that made four lady knights in total with Sir Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau. Not to count her friend Jezzaki, Jezz for short, of Queenscove(3) who was to take her Ordeal next midwinter.
But living in the Yamani Islands for most her childhood Kel knew bunches of swear words from the guards, not to mention knowledge of there beautiful weapons. Of course her mother being a Yamani Princess before Tortallan Queen had the same knowledge if not even more, but they never got a chance to enter into a real discussion about it. With the little time they got to spend with each other was spent talking about their day, and plans for the next. And with those last thoughts she went back to cursing her self once again.
Being a Princess of Tortall allowed her certain rights, one of which was an armed guard and escort. As youngest in her family the only thing that she could do was go to the balls, mayhap's fall in love, or be used in a alliance or what not. She had wanted to do something more with her life, didn't want to wait around for her future to be decided for her. Koto had tried to talk her father into letting her train to be a knight, but being a princess the most that she could do was train with them and learn there skills. In one of her desperate attempts toprove to... well herself... that she could do something on her own she had foolishly ran away from her guards determined to make herway back to Corus on her own.
Joining a Merchant tavern near Goldenlake, they had made there way towards Corus. As her luck would have it the very next day there band was attacked by bandits, the merchants tried to defend them self's but it was of little use. Unlike most, these bandits were all trained in the art of combat.
Flashback
"Bandits!" Somebody yelled from the back of the Caravan, heads turned to see a group of nearly, thirty bandits on hours back galloping towards them. There was a sudden spurt of noise and bustle as every one went to grab a sword or some weapon to defend them self's with. Sheekoto along with them, much to everyone's surprise, grabbed a sword and took a defensive position along with those who were to fight.
The bandits struck with a head on assault, effectively cutting there defenses in half. Koto watched as she saw what should have been a slow drawn out battle swiftly become a slaughter. She found herself being attacked by one, surprising him greatly when she was able to block his blow. However Koto was more surprised than he when he quickly recovered and attacked with the agility of a well trained warrior. They traded blows both watching each other for a weakness when Koto felt a sharp pain in her shoulder effectively sending herto her knees, making an effort to look behind her she felt another pain, then she saw black. (4)
End of Flashback
A/N:
1- the books only described Fianola as a noble girl so I got Tellerun from the name of a river.
2- I made the name up just for shit's and giggles.
3- supposed to be Neal's daughter
4- I'm sorry if Sheekoto seems weak at this point but you cant have and adventure if the main character doesn't get into some kind of trouble... so yeah, she really is a good fighter and thus will be shown latter in my story.
So sorry for the abrupt ending but it is only the prolog and I have the first chappie nearly finished, so look for an up-date at the end of this week. Please R&R