Unlike other stories I relay to you, this one I had written years and years ago. I actually didn't remember writing this until when going through my piles of junk from my Rolak days (including finding my old paperweight skull, I love that skull) and I happened across this horribly written tale about Marian (see she was right I would have forgotten). Now its not to say the tale itself is horrible, just that my handwriting over the years has not ever gotten better, so transcribing this is a real pain. Which doesn't speak well for me having to transcribe my journal should I live to when an easier method of writing things becomes available. Details! Anyway I'll write this thing in parts because its hard to on my eyes reading my hand writing and I'm lazy as all hell as usual (you think I break up entries by day for no reason?). Enough of me delaying here is the first part of Marian's story. Enjoy whoever you are that reads this probably after I'm dead!
Marian Ribiachi was the child of warriors. Her father was a captain in the Ronerawth army, her mother was a mercenary hired by Ronerawth to clear out some bandits where she met Marian's father and thus started their knockdown drag out romance. Before Marian could crawl she had a weapon in her hands, by age ten she was able to beat trained soldiers in duels, by age sixteen was considered a part of her father's personal bodyguards and paid a stipend from Ronerawth proper.
Unfortunately like most people involved in politics, the winds changed and suddenly her father went from being a conquering hero, to a treasonous traitor and he and her mother were both executed when Marian was twenty. Marian herself avoided the execution personally by marriage. I guess when given the option between marrying someone or dying she chose poorly (I made this joke when Marian told the story to me, she hit pretty hard after laughing). She was married to one of the new emperor's second cousins who ruled over a small town near the Divide.
Despite being forced into the arrangement Marian decided she'd try and make the arrangement work. Until he tried to hit her for not cooking food properly, she said she was happiest when she heard his neck snap (didn't realize till now how creepy that sounds). Fleeing from Ronerawth across the border before she was found out, she actually got caught by a Red Hand patrol who surpringly were actually enforcing their southern border (I was shocked to find this out at the time, seeing as I constantly back in the day would jump borders like it wasn't actually enforced).
And so Marian was bound and lead deeper into Red Hand territory, accused of being a spy and set for execution, and thats where the real story beings. Tomorrow. I told you I'm lazy.
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