Description
Hearthsworn
By the river stretched the lands of Syr Fulgrim: cottages of black beam and whitewashed wall, homely and enduring, a seat as constant as the flow of the river itself. His was a holding of hearths and kinship, where folk lived close, content in their lot, and bound to one another by neighbourly strength.
Fulgrim himself reflected these lands. He sought not gaudy splendour, nor laid its burden upon his people; his pride was in their contentment, yet his presence carried weight. He was a guardian more than a conqueror — steady as stone, modest in bearing but firm in resolve. Like him, his warriors hungered not for wanton conquest, but fought with a loyalty that could only be born of shared hearths and shared lives.
To outsiders, Fulgrim and his kinfolk appeared unassuming. But those who mistook modesty for weakness found correction swift, for beneath their homely beams burned a spirit unwilling to let their ways be trampled.
Thus was Syr Fulgrim known: a knight of river meadows, lord not of ornament but of constancy. His strength lay not in the terror of his arms, nor in the breadth of his lands, but in the quiet abidance of a people who asked little but yielded less. He was proof that even the humblest lands, when bound by hearth and kin, could face the storm and remind the proud that contentment is no byword for weakness.
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