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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Widowmaker" data-source="post: 2847738" data-attributes="member: 23050">After some morning actvties Jeremiah comes to see you. "I have sent the raven. It should reach your father in four or five days. If they respond right away it will still be nine to ten days, if we are still here.""Is everything alright you look a little pale?" Jeremiah states as he looks at you with concern.Etiquette dicates that you appear at the lists this morning. As the morning wanes, the List has been quite active. Many a knight has been unhorsed or wounded. Most of them just spurred knights. As you watch the jousting you feel a sense of battle, but yet not. Things are too organized and controlled. You have heard battle is chaotic and uncontrolled. You feel the presence of someone standing over you, as you look back you see Lord Thommas standing behind you. “You care to walk with me Karrwin …. Please.” He says the last bit nodding his head and motioning for you to lead. You feel a change in the man, he is quite sincere.The first few moments are quiet, then Lord Thommas speaks. “About last night, please forgive my deception. I needed the chance to see who you really were and see how far you would go. I know politics and its game are not looked favorably in the North, but here it is how you survive.”“Let me tell you a story. Once there was a just spurred knight who thought that he could conquer the world. He was pompous and arrogant. He thought others should bow to him, especially those that were not knights. He met a young lordling, he felt insulted, what the insult was no one knows. But the lordling was of the North, he was neither a knight and nor a lord yet. So he challenged the man to a fight. The man from the North refused and refused. Finally the knight decided he would better the man in anyway possible. He lived for revenge.”“One day he received a raven with a simple message ‘Know thy self!’ Nothing else, three words. At first the knight thought it a joke. But over time those words echoed in his head. He finally realized the wisdom of those words. Since that time those two have been fast friends, yet there friendship is not well known.”“Those two men were your father and I. Your father was about my age, a little younger. And I was about your age. Your father stayed in the South for a little while and I learned many a thing from him. Especially never to underestimate or overestimate an enemy or an ally. He told me ‘Know thy enemy and know thy friend.’”“I doubt your father has mentioned this. We chose a long time ago to keep our friendship quiet. We both gain many things by others not knowing. Why do you think Ser Stuart is in the North. I value your father’s wisdom and teachings. Ser Stuart shall one day be my heir. My own sons are long dead and my daughter is married to a fop.”“So as you can see I would like to extend my friendship to you.” Lord Thommas states. “As to answer your questions from last night. I have placed wagers on Lord Leo. He is strong, quick, and decisive. There are not many better with a sword or lance than he. As to the rebellion – you are correct if the King chooses to ignore talk of it, it will simply grow bigger and bigger.”“To the rebellion more in a second. The King is no fool, but at the same time he is different everyday. I remember when the King was just and wise. But over the last season he has grown stranger and stranger. Some say it is the coupling of Targaryen brother to sister. They say the line is cursed.”“Many of the younger and older lords still favor the King. Those of us in our middle age see the King has changed and not for the better. The young are enamored by the King, they think him a hero to be worshipped. And the old still remember his better days. People like your father and I have seen the changes the King has brought.”“So as to the rebellion, it will happen. A catalyst is all that is needed. Soon brother will be fighting brother. The King has the option to save the Seven Kingdoms, but he won’t. He views the Kingdom as his and his alone.”“Know this I stand against the King. I will not publicly cry it, but just as your family has suffered because of the King so has mine. To the other question I know you are thinking. Is Daemon Blackfyre to be trusted?”“That you have to answer for yourself. I think he is honorable and just, but at the same time he comes from the same loins as our King. I guess I choose the lesser of two evils.”“As to other matters. I know you would like to court the Lady Tanya. Know this her father is cunning and ambitious. Although not the smartest. He wishes to be Hand. He dislikes you and plots against you. Why I do not know. I know he has a common friend of Viserys. They both wish to kill you.”“The Redwyne man you are looking for is Ser Jacen Webber. He is a knight in the service of House Redwyne. He set sail with a message for Pyke. He shall return this afternoon and speak to Lord Allister right away, he will then seek out his companions. By nightfall he will be drunk and in the tents looking for women.” “So when I said last night that you will need my help I was not lying. When the time comes you will have to explain this all to Tanya. If you don’t you will lose her to her father. You have to believe me I have been in your boots before.”“As to when that time is I don’t know. You will just know. I missed my chance. I thought I could beat the odds and ultimately I was wrong. It cost me very dearly.”“When the time comes the knights of House Fossoway are here to serve you. And if you need a place to hide my castle is always available.”You have walked for quite a while. It is almost noon before you have finished talking. It seems strange but you feel at ease with the man, while last night he had you on the edge.</blockquote>

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