[WFRP] The Bloody Crown XIII

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Elsa quietly waited for the end of Sieghard's eulogy before offering her own, which she had been mentally rehearsing for most of the day.

"When the Jackal first rose, thousands of years ago," she said, "the mightiest human civilization of the time waged war on him and put him back into the ground, at great cost. They engraved their victory in the walls of their city Kheneb-Ptra-Urush, now ruined. Yet they congratulated themselves too soon. After they were long gone, the Jackal returned. The Broken Reaches, bled dry by centuries of war and banditry, were unprepared for him. And yet you rose to the occasion and destroyed him. For good, this time."

She paused for dramatic effect.

"You, the Thorns, with crossbows and courage, succeeded where a great empire of old, with their priest-kings and their sorcery and their vast armies of war chariots, failed. You did it not for gold or king or glory, but for home and love and family and friends and all those who will come after you. Your victory may never be immortalized in stone, but it will echo across the ages. Entire generations will owe their existence to your brave deeds. If the Broken Reaches ever one day know peace and plenty, it will be your doing. You, and those we've buried today, have pushed back some of the shadows that have been darkening this land since long before your great-great-great-grandparents were born. And that's worth more than any number of carvings in the walls."

She could have said more, but decided not to steal Sieghard's thunder by speaking too long.


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I lack Public Speaking, but let's try a Charm 54 anyway: (d100)[18] Yaaay, go Elsa!
Fortune: (d100)[32]