Once long ago there was a man. A man respected by the whole village of Leshadra. A warrior it is true, but that is not why he was respected. He was a Knight Hospitaler, and devoted his life to defending the weak and treating the sick. He had settled in Leshandra after taking a grievous wound in a great war and needed much time to recover. As he healed he also spent time treating the village. Tho flawed, he came to truly like the village and its people. So it came as no surprise when an evil sickness broke out, he took it upon himself to find the rare plant that could heal it. I'll not speak of much of his journey as this story is not his. Suffice it to say, he was led astray and lost in a deep forest. But an Elven woman came to his rescue and together they found the plant and saved the village. But this is not her story either. Perhaps another day I will tell of their many quests and great adventures, but not this day.
Tho the narrow-minded village was grateful for his help, they did not care for the non-human who assisted him. There was much scandalous talk of the man's relationship with the elf. When it became apparent the Elf would not be leaving the man, the village started to pull back from the knight. He began to find it hard to find local merchants and farmers to sell to him. Friends he'd had for years stopped talking to him. Blinded by love he shrugged it off. But the beautiful Elf saw what was happening and stayed at their farmhouse to avoid trouble.
Trouble came anyway when the village people found out she was pregnant. Sly insults followed in the knight's wake. Stones broke windows in the middle of the night. Salt was scattered among her carefully tended flowers. The bar fight that started when the man was in the tavern seemed to end the ill will as he reminded the village he was still a warrior and not to be tampered with.
The child, Phedre nicEssus, was born into a family that loved and doted on her, and a village that hated her.
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