Camilla nodded eagerly. Her knowledge of the Drakwald was vague at best but anything seemed better than waiting around Middenheim for the Ostlander's to practice a little extra judicial murder. She reached down and twined her fingers with Cydric's.

"Sounds good to me," she said emphatically, squeezing Cydric's hand as she did so.

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[b]Interlude[/b]

[i]Dear Hector

I hope this missive finds you well. I was very heartened by your kind words regarding my work Recollections on the Tripartite Heresy and its Suppression, I am afraid such praise is scant for problems within the Church are rarely a popular topic even once the crisis is past. I hope that my memories of those harrowing days might be helpful to others who take up the heavy yoke of Sigmar's service as we too have. Sigmar alone knows where I would be without the works of Priests and Templar's of days past.

With regard to your questions regarding Cydric Becker and Camilla De La Trantio I shall, of course, do my best to satisfy your curiosity. Firstly let me categorically state that Cydric both then, and throughout our later interactions was a devout Sigmarite. I was present during the famous duel in Middenheim which has been so mythologized. Cydric did not call out to Ulric to smite the followers of Sigmar, he did not turn into a giant wolf, nor any of the more outlandish claims which have become attached to that meeting. Some of the stories no doubt grew out of the spectacle of an Elector involved in, and losing a duel, but there appears to have been a great deal of mythmaking on the part of Ulrician zealouts, looking to make Cydric into a hero for their own political purposes. He was and is, to my knowledge, a conventionally religious man of the Empire with a proper reverence for all its deities. As I have made clear in the Recollections his services have at times been extremely useful to Sigmar and his church.

With regards to Camilla I can be less certain. Despite our on again off again associations she remains something of an enigma to me. I have never met a more accomplished liar than Camilla De La Trantio, I do not mean to imply that she is a fundementally dishonest person, but when she chooses to decieve she is more capable than any I have ever enountered. Camilla dosent just lie with her words, but with gestuers, her eyes, even her tone. It is fortunate I think that she encountered Cydric as early in her career as she did, or I have no doubt she would have gone down in the histories as one of the greatest con artists of the age. The incident in Middenheim does mark the beginning of her repeated claims to various imaginative and often fictitious titles, including a Kislivite Princess, a Brettonian Countess and on a memorable occasion the Queen of Sartosa. It is appropriate that history has settled upon her the sobriquet of The Duchess.

Their involvement in the events of my history is sporadic but the certainly seem to have the good fortune, or perhaps misfortune from their perspective, to have arrived at several critical points. I was always glad of their presence and made use of their skills as best I might. Though they move in a grubbier world than perhaps we might like I have always felt them to be on the side of Sigmar. 

If you should encounter them I implore you to show them friendship on my behalf and should you have any need of such people, employ them without hesitation. I fear there are dark days ahead and we will need all the swords we can find, even if those swords come at a negotiable rate.

Sigmar Bless and Guide you,
Matis Von Koneinswald - Templar of Sigmar

Letter to the Blessed Lector of Sigmar, Hector Morganstern[/i]