Okay everyone, so it looks like this chapter is coming out sooner than I thought.
Mainly because I wanted to get to King Ashnard tale as soon as I could.
Trust me this is a bit of a doozy of a story, especially if you haven't played the Tellius saga.
Also at the end of this chapter I've decided to place the Growth Rates of a Tellius Soldier, just so you know how Irwin is progressing.
Anyway let's start this chapter.
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During the walk the three of us were having I decided to tell Kaze and Rinkah the same things I told the Royal Family, minus Garon.
I didn't get much reaction from it though, just the two of them looking disturbed because of the Begnion Senate's actions.
"We should make camp soon." Kaze finally said as we found a series of rocks to hide us from view.
"You got that right." Rinkah said, "If it gets any darker we won't being seeing anything."
"I think there's some firewood in this pack." I said opening the cloth sack I got from Xander before I left Krakenburg, sure enough there was some sticks in it to start a fire, "Anyone got a way to light this?" I asked pulling out the sticks.
"Give me those." Rinkah said snatching the sticks from my hand and tossing them in the fire pit Kaze had already made, "Let me show you what we of the Fire Tribe can do."
With that Rinkah touched one of the sticks and it caught ablaze, soon spreading to the rest of the sticks.
"Damn, more reliable than a Fire Mage that's for sure." I said sitting by the fire.
"What the hell's a Fire Mage?" Rinkah asked.
"You know how Nohr has their Dark Mages?" I asked rhetorically, getting a nod from Kaze who was roasting a small bird of some kind on the fire, "Well back in Tellius Mage's specialized in either Wind, Fire, Thunder, or Dark magic Tomes... Though there were Tome's for Light Magic. Basically the People of Tellius Specialized when it came to magic, more than any other continent I've seen."
"You people over complicate things." Rinkah said.
'This coming from the person in the world where there were so many extra variations of weapons they had to simplify the weapon Triangle down to colors.' I thought a little annoyed by Rinkah's attitude.
"You said King Garon reminded you too much of a King called Ashnard." Kaze said as he handed the roasted bird to Rinkah, "Why is that?"
I sighed at that, King Ashnard has got to be one of the most cruel Kings in fiction I've seen... at least from Nintendo, "Well, I'd like to say that before hand that this is a pretty dark tale." I started.
"Quit it with the build up and start talking." Rinkah said as she took a bite out of her bird.
"Don't say I didn't warn you." I said before I cleared my throat, "Well, to start off, Ashnard's coronation wasn't exactly one that came from a peaceful path... In fact, Ashnard killed his father to take the throne."
Kaze looked up from the bird he was roasting, pulling it off as he did to hand me the bird.
"Thank you." I said taking a bite... 'Huh, not too bad.' I thought.
"So they made his killer the king?" Rinkah asked, "Didn't they have any siblings, or even cousin, aunt's, uncles anyone else to take up the throne?"
"Oh there was a hell of a list of people in front of Ashnard to be king." I said taking another bite of my bird, "So Ashnard got them all killed."
"How?" Kaze asked, "A mass murder like that wouldn't have been too hard to notice, and that kind of thing couldn't be ignored by the guards and military."
"Well, Ashnard had a way to kill all his rivals, without having to break the law." I said, "A nasty little document called a Blood Pact."
"It already sounds like something despicable." Rinkah said.
"It is." I said, "There are two people in a Blood Pact, the Contractor and the Contracted, the contracted person is usually tricked into signing the Blood Pact, as it is demands that the person contracted must uphold the terms of the Pact, or their people will start dying to disease en masse. The Contracted is usually a King or the like and is usually tricked into signing it."
"Shit." Rinkah said, "That's just a new level of low."
"It is." I said, "Ashnard's father unknowingly broke the terms of the contract, this started the Curse, one person died the first day, two the second day... you get the idea."
"So Ashnard used this curse to kill off the other successors." Kaze deduced.
"Yep." I said, "Now the only way to bring the terms of a Blood Pact to an end is if one person who is written into the contract dies and the Document is destroyed.
"So Ashnard killed his father and destroyed the document." Rinkah said, "Not the smartest plan, the guy could have died if it backfired."
"Either way Ashnard became the thirteenth King of Daein." I said, "But that's just the start of his terrible reign. Ashnard soon married a woman name Almedha, from this wedding Ashnard had a son."
"I don't see the guy as a family man." Rinkah said.
"He wasn't." I said flatly, "When the boy was born Ashnard expected the child to have some kind of special power due to him being the child of a Black Dragon Laguz, seeing as Almedha was a Princess of the Dragon Laguz Kingdom of Goldoa. Turns out the poor kid didn't have any special power and Ashnard used the child as bait to lure one of Almedha's brothers, Rajaion, into a trap."
"The hell is wrong with that man!?" Rinkah shouted, "You don't use a child for bait!"
"It get's worse." I continued, "Once Rajaion was captured, Ashnard abandoned the boy, and by extension Almedha was crushed by the loss of her son."
Rinkah looked absolutely furious, "Rinkah, calm down, we don't want a Nohrian patrol to find us." Kaze said.
"That bastard better have been killed." Rinkah said.
"With Rajaion captured, Ashnard asked a man named Izuka, who had created a drug to turn Laguz Feral, to inject Rajaion with the Drug." I said, "Now when a Laguz goes feral, they're nothing more than a wild animal, they've lost all sense of sanity, and they can't return to their humanoid form, their life span is alos drastically shortened."
"Gods this man sounds like more of a monster than the Faceless." Kaze said.
"It gets worse." I said, "Ashnard was impressed by Rajaion's power and in turn he 'trained' the Feral Dragon and turned him into nothing more than a twisted mount for him to ride into battle on."
I could see now that even Kaze was starting to lose his cool, "Imagine if Garon started to attempt to do such a thing." Kaze said quietly.
"Not too long after Ashnard finished training Rajaion, he launched a Surprise attack on the Capital city of Crimea, Melior, killing almost all of the Royal Family, in a single attack." I said, "He also attempted to kill the hidden child Elincia, but utterly failed to do so. However Ashnard had a different goal in mind he sought out an artifact known as Lehran's Medallion."
"What was so special about Lehran's Medallion?" Kaze asked.
"Sealed within that medallion was the Goddess of Chaos, Yune." I said, "I'll get to her story at a later time, just know she was benign to Beorc, Laguz, even the Branded. Anyway, Ashnard managed to acquire this medallion, and had hoped to sow the seeds of war all across Tellius, which he managed to do by bring all the nations of Tellius into the war."
"Mad King sound's like a more than fitting title." Rinkah said.
"The good news is that he was killed, in fact the army that was against him contained people from all the nations of Tellius, even a few people from Daein itself." I said, "Of course, Ashanrd had touched Lehran's Medallion, which is unfortunaltly curse to throw anyone but one who has the forces of Order and Choas within their soul in perfect balance into complete madness. Even so Ashnard was slain, and the Mad King's War was ended."
"Damn." Rinkah said, "I see why you compare him to Garon at the moment."
"And let me tell you something else." I said, "Ashnard attempted to claim that he was the one who orchestrated the Serenes Massacre, can you think of anyone who would happily claim to have done that when they had nothing to do with it?"
"No, no one sane would attempt to make such a claim." Kaze agreed, "But it's time we get to sleep, I'll take first watch." With that he grabbed pulled out a bowl, scooped up some dirt, and smothered the fire with said dirt.
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The next day we got up at the crack of dawn and made our way to the Bottomless Canyon. At least I had my EXP Bonus for the day/
"There's a Fort there under Hoshidan control we can re-supply at." Kaze said, "I don't know if you've noticed Irwin but the only things we had were the things you had."
"Yeah I know." I said walking closer to him than Rinkah. I'd rather be by the calm and collected guy that the woman who looks more than ready to bash some one's head in.
'I hope Corrin's doing alright.' I thought as I adjusted my armor, yeah sleeping in the stuff is far from comfortable.
"It'll still be daylight when we get there so don't go falling asleep on us." Rinkah said.
"I won't." I said, 'Especially because Garon has ordered an attack on it, albeit only that criminal Hans knows to attack, Corrin, Gunter, and Jakob were just told to scout the area... Boy I hope I can stop Rinkah from hitting Corrin too hard in the back of the head.'
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Okay guy's that's the chapter.
Anyway here's the Growth rate of a Tellius soldier.
HP- 70%
STR- 50%
MAG- 20%
SKL- 45%
SPD- 50%
LCK- 25%
DEF- 40%
RES- 40%
So yeah, Irwin's best stat's are going to be his HP, Strength, and Speed.
Yeah this isn't your cannon fodder unit that's for sure.
