Kingdom Come: Vanity

The Quest for Unification

Accuser: Chief, this man that stands before you with his ragged clothing is nothing but scum! Scum born of scum! Our fathers knew each other, hell his father was a regular at our tavern, drunk till he was sob! At half price! Yet he dared to rob us the day after!

People of the town: Outrageous!

Accuser: I thought his son was different but behold, here he stands before us all! Absolute scum! Tried to rob me on the street!

People of the town: Has he no shame? Outrageous!

Accused: Outrageous? He took my ale, so I wanted his life!

People of the town: His ale?! How dare you? Can’t you afford ale yourself? You fat hobbit!

Chief: Calm yourself, my people, why did you take his ale?

Accuser: Dying of thirst, saw a lamb, so I snatch his ale as he is none the wiser.

Accused: None the wiser? You dirty white crow! Bring your arse over here and I’ll show you who is none the wiser!

Accuser: Say thy words again and my fist will lick your face!

Accused: Argh…..!!!

Accuser: You robbed me of thirst! Taste my fist!

People of the town: Take my broom! Beat him with my whip! I put down 20 hammered on the fat hobbit! 50 hammered on the ginger queer!

Chief: Guards! Guards! Guards!

Fergus: Hehehe, I left here remembering a fight, I comeback witnessing a fight, theatre doesn’t weight it's silver to this.

Random person: Hehehe, nothing better but a good brawl on an auspicious day like this to rile up the townsfolk.

Fergus: Never heard such truer words like yours.

Random person: Traveler from the north?

Fergus: Traveler from the east.

Random person: I can’t believe my eyes, you have truly stunned me. Who from the east would be mad enough to disembark, unless they bring goods for sale, upon these supposed mad lands?

Fergus: Mad lands?

Random person: All eastern merchants say it. “Every time we come madness disrupts our trade!” Death to them, no one cares for the yak they bring! It’s ale or destruction! Said by someone, not of right mind.

Fergus: Truly, I'm gasped by that, hell you make me not willing to trade here or even visit!

Random person: I had such high dreams of change once more…

Fergus: Change? Didn't you mind the British siege? Siege so foul, fair, forgotten because of the nightmare that reaps you all?

Random person: I should but the books opened our eyes to the world, an empire that shaped us all in the way we are now….only if we were so lucky….

Fergus: lucky….haven't u read…

Random person: I must go whilst the wind is calm, farewell sailor.

Fergus: Thy liege was right, war changes all with its unplucked seeds but thou aren't so lucky...

Ireland, the land where you can drink like there’s no tomorrow, a man tried to rob me for ale as if I was a sob. Drunks everywhere at night as if their home is the ground. Foreigners don’t understand our tongue, who can understand a man whose mind is filled with nothing but liquid? Not even his own mother could. I walk down these gallow streets where drunks mimic the dead still walking. I was born on these liquid streets but wasn’t fully raised here, I was shipped off to the lands across the sea where the buildings are white and tall. Compare these lands, to the land across, we look like peasants to them.

I’ve attended school and learned their ways and about history. england is fascinating but isn’t fair to those who are rats, coloured in white but clothed in black ready to show you their ugliness at the moment of refusal of aid, outcasted; hated by those whose pockets are filled with sunlight that shines brighter than Neptune's seas all because they see them as vermins trying to leach off their wealth. I want to make it equal but what can I do when I have no power nor do I have rights to oppose those above me? However, I do have a chance to make this place better than the rest. I might be under oath but I still bare dreams for this barren land. The land of Ireland is full of tribes who need a strong leader to unite them all. I’m in the south of Ireland in a town they call Dublin. It’s a small village where I’ll meet the leader of the tribe of Munster. He called upon me because I’m said to be a military genius, my tactics are so brilliant that I can take on an enemy army with 5,000 against 10,000 and come with the enemies head on my silver stride. I was said to be the British nation's pride and jewels and will aid them to crush the croissant nation below, however, they send me off to conquer the land of Ireland and unite them under their banners. They tell me to aid the people of Munster to help them conquer Ireland but in reality, they’ll betray them and rip them apart from the inside. I can choose to go with the Brits, go with my home folks or go down to my own way to ultimate power...However, I’ll just let the wind of fate path my paths to where I decide.

“Fergus!” I look around wondering who uttered my name in such furious manner. I look to the left and I see absolute belligerent drunks, I look right and I see a man on a high horse.”Fergus, over here.”Oh, that’s the man who’s been seeking my face.

I head towards him and says “Hello sir, how may I help you?” He informs me that he’s from the castle; has been sent to get me back there. He aids me with a horse whom I trust to follow him back to the castle.

Galloping past the rural environment land is like a bird chirping in thy ears, like the harp making gentle music that refines thy mind. So beautiful but dull to stare at for days. I’ve visited huge homes that look like castles but what is in front of me is nothing but a wooden shack built on a small hill, I’ve killed pebbles before but now I must fight with them... We scud inside into the settlement, I bowed down to the tribal leader of Munster, He welcomes me to his humble abode as if I’m a friend of his. I stand to tell him the news I bring from abroad, He approves of the plans but mutters behind his beard...no man's lips would move gently behind a beard unless he’s muttering to himself. I best watch my back as he might try something outrageous to undermine the plans. He orders his men to gather the generals of his army to hastily gather the forces as the war for the Island shall be waged soon! I take my leave and ask the future-kin-to be to send someone to inform the British of their response. As for me, I’ll meet the British men under my control on a 1-day ride towards the east near the coast to gather them.

The Opposition

A unified nation? Never in a million years. We can leave the Irish alone and let them crush each other to the point of no return or make them ours or let them be our ally under one ruler...I know my choice was the last one but those animals need us to lead them. We’ve sent a bloody good general to aid the people of Munster to unify a war striven island but what if we take them under our rule? I own the Scots, the Welsh but why not the Irish? Advisor: “We can always go and conquer them but first we must let them kill each other to weaken them.” “I like the way u think. Knight?” “Yes, let’s conquer and plunder and grow our mighty nation to make our enemies fear us.” “Well, I agree with you both, what about the rest?” Others “We Agree!” Then we shall wait until the war is over and we shall seize and conquer for England!

Dream of Peasants

(In the heart of Ulster, Ulaid there’s a crowd listening to a man.)

Random Priest: Pagans, Pagans lurk deep within the woods! They act as if their blessed by God with knowledge but their knowledge is nothing but the Devils work! They bare our face but that’s all forgery, beneath their face is a mark so dreadful your bowels will pour out!

Aedan: Give it a rest Priest---I’m trying to enjoy myself here in peace.

Random Priest: Look at that heathen, those who drown themselves in the devil's treat are the Lord's enemy like those who preach the devil deep within the melancholy woods!

Aedan:--You think you’re better than me? I have witnessed you behind Mclaren's quenching yourself like a depraved madman.

Random Priest: Blasphemy! Blasphemy I tell you! Don’t you take me for one of the sinners you preach with deep within the darkness!

Aedan: Not only are you willing to go against God just to quench yourself, what’s fret me is that you do it beneath the blanket of the night as if our father can’t see! Shame! Thou father knows, why hide it?

Random Priest: Hush your foul mouth! Someone, cut this heathen tongue so he can’t spew more ill tales of a devoted servant of our father!

Aedan: hahaha---haha. The only tongue that should taste the floor should be yours! No one should bare anymore of your madness of some crafty old wise tales deep within the woods.

Random Priest: ...What should they hear then?

Aedan:---The---Future of Ireland----

Random Priest: Which is?

Aedan:----Peace, serene; fun is every man and woman's dream. Foreigners see us as ruffians who drink like there's no tomorrow. I couldn’t care less about what foreigners think and say about our type of people, all foreigners could go to hell for what I care. We shouldn’t be divided due to political differences. As long as the person by my side can enjoy a good drink and games, I bear no hatred towards them. Hell, kill my bloody git off a father and I’ll buy you the ale.

“I can wish and dream of what I seek----but what’s the point when nothing will change around here whilst I sit on my lazy arse all day and do nothing? (drunk)I MUST FIGHT FOR WHAT I WANT! (People listening) COME FORTH AND JOIN AN ARMY THAT WILL UNIFY OUR BROTHERS ACROSS THE BORDERS. WE SHALL OVERTHROW OUR SELFISH MONARCHIES AND FIGHT FOR SOMETHING MEANINGFUL!(people listen to him) NO MORE POINTLESS WARS AGAINST OUR OWN BLOOD, NO MORE HATE AND LIES THAT KEEP US AWAY, TEAR DOWN THE WALL AND FUCKING UNIFY FOR GOD’S SAKE UNDER ONE BLOODY MUDDY BOOBY FUCKING AJDFSDFLSDF BANNER!(falls asleep) People” YES HE’S RIGHT to LET’S UNITE OUR ISLAND AND SEED THE YEARS OF CONTENT FOR THE GOOD”.

Narrator: The people support the man as they too share the same dreams of unification. However, as he has fallen asleep, time passes since they're all in the same timeline at the moment...Peasants picked up the drunken assailant and brought him to an unknown location of dreams…

Random Priest: Sinners are everywhere I turn, willing to hear a man speak of a dream rather than be warned about the enemies of our father! (leaves)

“Aedan is this drunk man's name. He owns me a serious amount of Hammers. He shares the same ambitions as us”. Unknown “I’ll make sure he’ll repay with aid to the dream. Wake the man up from his slumber.” Aedan “Who dares to lay their fingers on me? Clinch thy hands and duel me like a man!”

Unknown “Calm down you drunken brute, he didn’t mean you harm. Go and cleanse thyself and meet me on the second day first light on the hillock centred between here and there for the days to come.”

Aedan “Why should I do what you ask of me?”

Unknown “Because of a dream and duty that ties us all together for the sake of serenity.”

Aedan “I’ll obey as thy tongue doesn’t tell lies. but first, tell me of thy name.”

Proinsias “Proinsias is what all call me”