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01 The griffin's heart

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Chapter 1: The griffin's heart



Back at castle Greifenstein you are assailed by the quenchless desire for a good beer.

But since the good beer was completly consumed at the last festivity held in the castle, you have to be satisfied with a beer form the tavern. As you step in the warm crepuscule and the condimental aroma of the room overwhelm you and make you feel as if you were at the right place to the right time. Wanting to enjoy your beer without getting distrubed by a licksittle you sit down on at a table in the corner of the room. After your beer had been carefully placed in front of you, your thoughts start to divagate back to the events at the Weitwinkel-Berg. Who were those seers and why do their prophecies always become true?

Even if you were unlikely to find a satisfying solution with thinking you get angry when your thoughts get interrupted by a conversation from a table nearby.

"So the year it's the year of the griffin?" A voice starts to speak.

"well, yeah" confirms another one.

"Hopefully we'll be having luck with the harvest this year." says a third one.

A short pause. Then the first one starts to speak again.

"It would be enough for me if the young griffin would not be such an idiot and started being usefull instead of being lazy."

You choke yourself with your beer and star coughing. The peasants turn around and look at you.

You hope that they dont know who you are. Luckily they seem not to be interested in you anymore and their conversation goes on, back to the harvest this year.

But you are completly busy with yourself while you are trying to dink the upcoming anger away with beer. This hasn’t got the wanted but the exact opposite effect because the alcohol starts controlling you and only with a lot of effort you are able to keep yourself from beating up these people.



Instead you start moving towards the entrance. These useless idiots are out of your cognitive ability now, but still their words are burning your mind like poison.

In your anger and pain you decide something that will change your life forever.

You will show this ragtag what you are made of. You will show them, that your heart.... is the heart of a griffin!



Mission 1: Green ragtag

A triumphal feeling starts to raise in you and just as triumphal you fall over the threshold of the tavern, face first, in the dirt. But your desicion is made.

Your first heroic act is going to be the devastation of the bandits in the ruins.



You still remember them. In your childhood you were used to playing with them and together you made the forest unsafe, no dragon disguised by a bush was safe from you. Until the day they found out that you were the duke's son. Since then they tried to avoid you and threw stones at you when you wnated to come closer to them. At that moment you started to see the common people as what they are: scums.



Even if you do not like to think about that, this memory gives you the needed motivation to put your plan into practice.



Mission 2: Escape from your home

You wipe away the blood from the last bandit from you sword and you are astonished that you are feeling nothing. No satisfaction after revenge, no sadness after the death of people that used to be your friends. Anyway, the faces of the bandits do not look known to you at all. Maybe they have changed or .. - your thoughts are disturbed by one of you soldiers shouting a warning cry. You climb on the walls of the ruin - and your jaw drops. A gigantic army is marching towards the castle of your father. You turn a round and theres another army as big as the first one making it's way to Greifenstein. Without thinking you command your men.

"Back to Greifenstein, now!"

"Sire, the invasion is too strong. The castle is going to fall!" A soldier contradicts.

"That's why-" you start.

"That's why we have to leave, probably to the harbour of Grauwacht. Wie don’t want to die in an already lost battle!" says the soldier" Would your father want that?" he adds quietly.

You try to keep your head cool. If you decide to fast now, you are not only risking your life but your soldiers' lifes too. On the other hand you don't want to leave your father alone.



HINT:

There are two ways of winning: You can try to beat the invasions or try to reach the harbour.

But do not expect both leading to success!
(Translation by Jonnye)