Elise Hydaelyn, the princess of Eorzia and youngest daughter to King Regis had ventured into unknown land. This was all for peace, to stop a war that had been raging for quite the century. It had been agreed that to broker a peace a union would happen, a marriage between to Kingdoms that had been at war for as long as people could remember. Eorzia was sustaining itself, just. They had vast amounts of land and plenty of crops enough to feed their Kingdom for a few years, soldiers however weren’t as easy to come by. Sure, the Kingdom had enough men to protect its defences but to keep a war going they needed fresh new soldiers which was becoming harder to come by.
The King had come up with a plan, he had hoped it would call the Warlords bluff, create a break in the defence for him to get the upper hand but it had done the opposite. The King hoped that offering a peace treaty through marriage meant the Warlord would decline, him declining would have meant people potentially rebelling over him not accepting a peaceful way to resolve this. It was meant to be quite the tactful move on his part, but that had not been the case, there was no decline, in fact there was a counteroffer and King Regis was left with no choice but to accept as he didn’t want to be the one declining peace.
With word spreading about the peace between Kingdoms it was hard to back down, Regis had sent his daughter to the Warlord ahead of any preparations so they could meet one another before they would sign the treaty at the wedding. It had become the biggest topic of news since the start of the war.
Stupid father, what an idiot. Grumbling to herself as she looked out the window of her carriage, she had been sent with an escort into what was once enemy territory to have her first meeting with him. Looking back to when she was told she had remembered her anger, the fury and then tears. Her hand curled into a fist thinking back on it.
“Elise.” A gruff voice come from the doorway of her room, smiling up at her father she gestured him inside as she turned from the seat at her table.
“Father, is everything okay?”
“I have… managed to find a way of peace. A way to stop this long drawn out war.” Hesitating with his words as he stepped further inside the room pacing towards the window, he glanced at his daughter wondering how to approach the subject. “I have arranged something, to keep the peace I have… promised your hand to them.”
Snapping her head around to her father, the King, she frowned anger rising. “You did what!?” Slamming her book down against the table she was outraged, arranged marriages were common but it didn’t mean she had to like it. The idea of it was just not something that sat right with her and she had kind of hoped that she did not have to go through with something like that. Of course, she was wrong.
“It’s the only way. You will be leaving in a couple of days to go meet with him. There is no fighting against this.”
“COWARD!” Shouting her outrage as her father left quite quickly after breaking the news, she had thrown the book just as the door had shut behind him, narrowly missing him in the process. Clearly had had not wanted to stay much longer knowing it would only cause a fight.
Shaking her head from the memory she sighed heavily as she felt the carriage come to a stop, glancing back out the window the scenery was vastly different to Eorzia and she felt a pang of guilt for not saying goodbye to her father before she travelled. Looking at the carriage door as it opened, she was helped out of the carriage by a few soldiers that had accompanied her on the long ride. It had taken a couple of days to get here but the journey had been quite smooth, there had been no attacks throughout the whole journey which she found quite surprising.
Stretching her legs, it felt good to be out of the carriage, but the pit in her stomach began to rise as she realised who she was about to meet. Brushing out the creases in her dark blue dress she knew that there was no escaping this, she was about to meet this Warlord that she had heard quite the stories about. Maybe if I just run? Go into hiding? Could that be an option? Getting lost in her thoughts as she approached her impending doom the Princess began to think on ways she could potentially escape this fate her father had sealed for.
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