Rp log for Edric Thorne and Helena Vow - foundation Rp for the Sepulchre Order (Coming soon to Balmung)
Edric Thorne: Thud. Plated boots marked another dent into the table as they clattered their way on up. Edric was content, the warm fire roaring nearby nearly putting him to sleep twice already.
 âNnn, Helena.â He stirred, his eyelids blinking open. âLesâ just call it a day, aye? Itâs gettinâ late.â
Helena Vow: Helena had been padding between the kitchen and the store room for the past two hours. On the stove a vilesome brew was bubbling and every now and again she would clatter into the stores to find another herb to add to the already bubbling and rather pungent mix âMmm?"Â
She poked around the corner and glanced at him, his boots (per the usual) were resting on the table. A tisk of displeasure was heard as she ducked back into the kitchen âGo ahead, go to sleep, this needs to boil down a bit further or I wonât get all of the needed constituents out of the mixture.âÂ
A pause in her words before she took a far bigger breath to give her voice a suitable amount of volume "And take your boots off the table!!â this was called over her shoulder as she put her face near the boiling mixture, inhaling softly and then sputtering a cough as she wiped the tears from her eyesâŚit burnedâŚit was almost ready.
Edric Thorne: waved a dismissive gauntlet at her call for his boots on the table. It was his table, after all. âI thought we were gonâ call it a night, âeh? Just whatever youâve been cookinâ doesnât smell so hot.â He started to drift again, neck craning across the woodwork to hand limply as slumber started to spin its web over his mind. Oddly enough, just before such his boots fell from the table with another hearty thunk.
Helena Vow: rolled her eyes softly âIâd hope it doesnât, its not for eating!â She called back into the main room as she chuckled, lowering her voice to a normal tone as she found some vague thrill in her next commentary âIts poison..â as though she were the damnable cat who ate the canary. Her next acquisition was digitalis, also known as fox glove, the various active components were good for one thing onlyâŚstopping a manâs heart. It would be the last bit of what she needed before she would let the entire mixture cool and slowly finish its decoction over night. This final little item was in the store roomâŚand so back once again she went, padding out of the kitchen and into the little room without windows. She spied a final glance at Edric, now sleeping in his chair âMen..â she muttered after throwing open the door and shuffling about in the darkness. âDigitalisâŚDigiâŚ.âshe frowned as she felt about in the dark âah ha!â a large wicker chest was found and then opened as seemed to recall having put it into such a container. Yet as she through it open she would not find the soft dried contents of plant matter, but instead cold and hard steele which was smoothe to the touch. A curious thing to find in the store room. After a moment Helz would retreat and return with a lamp, its sputtering light gliding over the contents of the woven wicker trunk. The plate was darkenedâŚblack with strains of red and lo.. staring right back at her through the bleak shadows she caught the silent roaring maw of a rampant lionâŚthe great lion of House Thorne.
Edric Thorne: continued to drift further and further into his deep slumber, certainly depicting anything but the great lion of Thorne as his lips parted slightly to inhale a snore. Edric, with the company of a warm fire and Helena wasnât usually one to awake so suddenly; napping might as well have been his profession at this point. Yet, when her hands glided smooth over the steel of Thorne the oaf shot awake, gauntlets gripping hard enough into the lounge chair to rip at the fabric. âHelena..â He called, his voice drifting towards the storeroom. âHelena!â He repeated, greaves practically stomping into the ground as he shot up and made way towards the chest. /That/ chest. He had only a simple pair of eyes, but yet he had known what she discovered. It was never meant to be touched again. Nearly busting into the storeroom, a gauntlet aimed to snap the wicker shut. âYerâ digitails are beneath the rest of your herbs, aye? You can finish yerâ stew tomorrow.â
Helena Vow: knew not what had startled him awake, but certainly the eagerness in his voice that edged of discomfort was not lost on her. When he came into the store room he would no doubt witness a rather odd sight. His darling Lady Fair was sitting on her knees with the wicker lid up, and in her hands she had propped the shield up and forward as she peered into that molded visage as though in understanding - her eyes darkened into a frown. His sudden appearance and the snapping of the lid nearly caught the softer flesh of a hand and wrist before she dropped it and moved away. SilenceâŚshe rose slowly and then turned to face him âWhy do you have that armor, Edric?â a brow rose up in cautious questioning.
Edric Thorne: was certainly looking at Helena but something in his gaze was looking.. through her? Shadows danced and flickered about his visage, the light catching only the center of his visage to give him a more serious, disturbed look about him. âJust finish your poison, Helena.â His words were not playful, jovial, uppity. No, the thick thunder that was his voice went grave with seriousness. âWe have to make for Little Ala Mhigo in the morning, there is no time for stories of old.â A snarl almost rose in his throat, the lion deep within his core stirring awake.
Helena Vow took a moment in silence as he seemed on edge, and yet the topic of that armor was simply not something that she could very well let alone. If indeed that sigil represented the lineage that she did indeed suspectâŚthere were words that needed saying and truths that needed revealing. âNoâŚI think stories of olde are precisely what needs to be told.â She stood now in the little store room, most of its light blocked out by his far greater frame âI know this sigilâŚEdric. It is the markings of House Thorne, under the banners of Sir Baelorn Thorne, the last of his line before the fall of Ala MhigoâŚ.tell me where did you get that armor?â She seemed tense, on edgeâŚor perhaps hedging her bets.
Edric Thorne: allowed the silence of the room to blanket their conversation; his size growing not in physical sense but mentality as he started to engulf the room in his heated thunder. âYou know nothing!â He boomed, enough to make a grown man quiver. A plated fist rocked into the side of the wall, crunching the wood inward and shaking the sheer foundation of the building. âNothing..â He said again beneath his breath, eyes gone wild and puplis shrinking. Something did, however, move his gaze towards the chest. A calling, a whisper that started to buzz around his thoughts in a whirlwind of sound. Whatever Helenaâs reaction to such an outburst would be deafened by the maddening buzz.Â
A heavy, plated knee bounced off the marble of the floor as his form curled over the box nearly possessively, working the shattered hinges open. It was becoming louder, his head thudding and screaming with enough pain to body ten men. A gauntlet dove, fishing out the hilt of the fabled sword of Reverence. Once held in the grasp of Baelron himself, the crimson blade was a lengthy cut of a metal unknown to Eorzea. Or so the legend told. It was then that room started to humm with power, vibrating the senses enough to feel sick.Â
A whisper graced the air, swirling about until it settled heavily onto his mind. Like a sharp, hot needle piercing the very skin of his temple the thoughts of Ala Mhigo started to flood his brain. Raking, scraping, cutting, tearing at each thought until the cries of terror from his victims of war was all that was left. A depiction of mounted soldiers of Griffonback awaiting order whilst blood idly dripped from the end of the crimson blade, the face of Edric Thorne soon being unmasked beneath a helmet coated in blood and sweat. "Edric.â Came the soft whisper, enough to collapse the heavy bastard onto the marble floor.
Helena Vow had backed away as he retrieved the swordâŚ.ReverenceâŚshe too knew its tales, she had heard them as a girl..stories whispered in flickering lamp light, stories that spoke of a great line and its ties into what was once the Sepulchre Order. Â
Many things are shared with children, and many things that are meant only as fanciful entertainment. And yet, she knewâŚHelena knew that with all tales of legend comes truth. Truth which was now embodied upon the long and straight edge of an eternally bloodied sword, a great weapon of war held by Baelorn Thorne, and before him to Bhraghad Thorne. Disbelief registered upon her features and silence rested upon the air. Â
She did not see him sway, indeed she had not thought there to be any form of distress until he was already falling towards the hard floor âEdric!â She cried out..rushing to his side. Breath came and went from his lungs as in his fist rest the pommel of the blade.Â
The strength of a midlander was no match for his bulk and soâŚin silence..she would sit with him in darkness until the raging storm did pass.
âLong may he Reign, the last of his line, Lord Edric Thorne - Lord Commander of the Sepulchre Orderâ