Lindinis

The dark knight of: Lindinis.



" Leofwin of Lindinis (The plight of Leofwin) "

As a boy Leofwin was raised in a large estate of Lindinis, not knowing anything besides the rich side of life. He grew up and made his occupation after his honorable father as a merchant. His business and new home flourished; in the course of 10 years he married and had three children and was renown through out his father’s estate.

At the age of forty two, Leofwin, was called by the King to war, which he could not deny, for he was a very honorable man. So He said goodbye to his family and his estate members and rode to meet the king and his armies. When he reached the battle camps, a commander, who had been close friends with his father, met him with the highest of esteem. He was given a special armor, full thick and silver, worn only by the generals themselves, a long battle spear and several curved swords. His training was extensive, for he was a very large brutish man, being almost 7 feet tall in stature he towered and put fear into other men. He wouldn’t speak much before his training sessions, but would come out victorious in any of his duals, and became a master of horseback and ground fighting, and after a year or so of battle hardening, he went to fight a long ten years war.

After much fighting and hardship, he returned victorious, with many battle scars, proud, a tad bitter, but happier than ever to go home to his family an honorable protector of his father’s land.

" Leofwin of Lindinis (The plight of Leofwin) PII "

But upon Leofwin's return, he saw that his defense was misplaced, and the whole estate laid in ruins. He went to the old ruined keep, only to find every one of his family’s bodies reduced to remains, left tied a series of supportive columns, burnt to death, now blackened to an almost unrecognizable state. Despair and anger filled his heart.

How could he let this happen, how could he be so fed up in another land, fighting the wars of the king? So he had his mind made up: first he would seek revenge on the ones who had done this, then he would defend all of the lands against this great injustice. He saddled up onto his silver armored horse once again, mounted with his silver armor weapons, and supplies, and rode off in search of these villains.

" Leofwin of Lindinis (A New War) "

Leofwin searched from town to town, day and night, trying to discover what happened to his fathers estate, but one town to the next the same story was told and retold, they saw a small band of armed men streaming across the kingdom valley, enter the estate, then leave, heading back towards the heartland. But how could this be possible? Towards the castle, and the King? Surely the King, who had been the first to return from war because of financial problems, would have had the heads of these men! But he had gotten no such word of these intruders.

So he rode to the castle and main estate of the king to look for answers. He came into the king, and to his surprise came into him dressed in royal robes, and drinking wine. Since when had the King changed his domineer so violently? For he, before the war, was a very meek, and servant-some King who was rarely in the castle, and very seldom sitting upon his throne for more than a few minutes. The king scoffed at his questioning, saying that while he was gone his men had taken excellent care of the kingdom and that Leofwin was mistaken about the intruders.

" Leofwin of Lindinis (A New War) PII "

Now Leofwin was indignant. He stormed out of the castle and marched ragingly towards his black steed. Then a shady looking man, dressed in a shaggy robe approached him and bowed before him. He asked of what services he had of him, and the shady man had been a spy, unhappy about the way the king was running the country. And he told him everything. The King being way low on money at his early return was desperate. Leofwin’s father’s estate was the richest in all the land, and the King decided he wanted to tax it as such. But his father being a man of dignity, prized his hard earned money, and decided one month that he had given enough. This lack of money made the king greedy and power hungry, and he sent his own men to go and take hold of his fathers estate.

At the sound of this news, Leofwin stood in shock, awe, and with feelings of betrayal. He opened his mouth barely as to ask more, but the shady man stopped him saying he shouldn’t have told him these things in the open streets. But it was too late, of rained a shot of arrows, piercing the shady man, and a few bouncing off of Leofwin’s armor. Angered, he jumped on his horse and rode towards his father’s ruined estate, this was now a double sided war, against villains attacking helpless citizens, and a new greedy King who was also a danger to them, yes, his own kingdom…

" Leofwin of Lindinis (A Black Knight) "

At his arrival to his old father’s estate, he found the wreckage pulled away, and new buildings starting to form, revenge rattled in his heart, but how could he achieve it now? His estate was lost, and now he was banned from his own kingdom, made wealthy by his family’s long hard lives. He searched his memory for a place to go. And then remembered, his old resourceful friend; the master metal smith of Lindinis. Though he was a good friend of his father’s, he doubted he would have fallen under the kings siege, because he made most of the armors for his generals, not to mention the kings armor. So he rode to the old man’s metal shop, not two miles from the estate, and sure enough it still stood, the old brick metal shop.

" Leofwin of Lindinis (A Black Knight) PII "

Leofwin rode to it, told his great horse to stay, then thumped on the door. Then opened up the old man, very happy and surprised to see him he welcomed him in, and implored him to take his heavy silver armor off and take a rest in his home and workshop. So he did and took a seat at the mans table, where he was presented with a meal reserved by commoners for knights and visiting Lords. The smith worked as Leofwin ate, and they both talked. He explained his long story to his old friend, explaining why he was still alive, and why his father’s estate was now mulch. This angered the metal smith, and he swore he would help him in anyway he possibly could, and do whatever he could secretly, subtly and carefully to put the kings troops at a disadvantage. And then he remembered one of his secret projects he had been working on. He shuffled to the back of his workshop and cranked a couple of levers, and down from a system of pulleys came a shining, black fierce armor. For twenty years the man had been perfecting it; the lightest toughest armor in all the land, made of a rare black metal found in a distant enemy territory, from the war it had wound its way back to his workshop.He now had a base support of which to work of, for him was built a stable looking stay for him to hid, and now, Leofwin, clothed in his new armor, as well as his horse in the same type, and he rode on as, the black knight of Lindinis.