King of Lions Corps(e) Forever
“When a Blaiddyd goes mad the world follows.”-Lorenz Hellman Gloucester
The King of Lions Corps are a sworn order of the best of the best, picked with exceeding care and sworn to a king of Faerghus, the vow they swear and the mark they have imprinted on their skin goes soul deep and can /never/ be broken. They are sworn first to the ruling royal, then their heir and lastly to whatever kings and queens come after.
This order is known to hold many a Fraldarius if they don’t win glory fighting their near eternal war with neighboring Sreng. The Vow is no small matter, only those with absolute loyalty are even considered and it must be the person’s own choice to join.
This is best displayed during the first years of King Dimitri’s rule when after years of stress and being hunted by Imperial forces by the invading Adrestian, he unconsciously sent out the Call some four and a half years into exile. His personal sworn Corps were all still among the living least they would have felt it though they were shortly alerted. But where they did not, others did. All the Others did. And so Faerghus for the first time since Empire formed saw a scene out of their ancient myths of the world’s end. The dead Lion Corps, bound and determined to fulfill their vow, awoke en-mass across the kingdom in their graves be they crypts of stone or the dirt of battlefields. Many a frightening ghost tale has roots in what the other countries witnessed as their ancient battlefields erupted. Duke Claude von Reigan, who had been holding the Alliance together, fled Fodlan entirely when the reports came in. And many a tale of renewed hope stems from the same in Faerghus because at this point the Kingdom had thought their king dead.
A Blaiddyd standing alone against their own madness or the world out for their head was not to be stood for. The people of Faerghus for all their grudges are extremely loyal to their royal family and none show it more then the Lion Corps.
Among the rising dead came many nobles, including Pan the Red and Kyphon Fraldarius themselves, Loog Blaiddyd’s wife and her twin brother, Oing Galatea, Golin Gautier and Astrid Forrester. This event quickly lead to renewed fighting on the rebellion’s side and many desertions on the Imperial army’s as the hold on Fhirdiad crumpled from both the populace rioting and the entombed Lion Corps flooding out and taking the invaders by surprise. Glenn Fraldarius was briefly mistaken for his wanted brother as seen running from Fhirdiad clutching the Blaiddyd relic lance Areadbhar.
Now something to note about the loyalty of the Faerghi people is along with the steadfast loyalty they are very very frightened of the prospect of any Blaiddyd truly going insane. History is filled with many myths, fables and historical accounts of how devastating a Blaiddyd on a rampage can be so this fear is not without cause. They are equally willing to throw their all behind their kings and queens when they fight for good reason, even if good reason only makes sense to them. Thus the fear is not usually born /of/ the king but more so /for/ the king.
This earth-shattering shift of power then lead to the King’s Commanders all congregating at Garreg Mach where the King had found shelter in his troubling state and an unexpected ally in the equally thought lost Professor Byleth Eisner.
More information on the rest of the War of the Best, it’s preceding events and after effects can be found in Azure Moon War: Fodlan Unification by Zelda Blaiddyd and War of Three Houses by Lindhardt von Hevring and The New Dawn for Fodlan: Millenium War by Conrad Hevnsint Gloucester.
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