Tenth Triskele [Video]

[childofthewickedday]

My father once told me a story of a knight who was skilled in hunting.  Who was loved by his people for winning in... [a pause to remember the word for it is not a druid culture] ...tournaments. Games.

Father said one day this knight went into the forest to hunt and killed all the animals he found. As he slaughtered them, he killed a doe of silver, and then her fawn of gold who he found hiding in fear in the brush. The last creature was a large stag of all white, with horns like branches of a great oak tree. As the knight and the stag faced one another, the stag cursed the knight for killing his kin and swore as long as the knight should live he would know only suffering each time he knew love. Then the knight slew him as he had the others. 

[He stops there, since the story itself is not really what he is getting at]

If the knight knew that slaying the stag would bring a curse upon him....why then would he still do it? In our stories, knights do such strange things... 

 

Comments

[necrowmantic]

Maybe he just really liked curses? Or killing things!

[childofthewickedday]

[A frown]

I've not met anyone who seeks curses.

[necrowmantic]

I do! Especially back home, curses were great! Better to inflict, but also pretty fun to get hit with.

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[dyingisnotdead]

He probably didn't believe the stag had the ability.

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[childofthewickedday]

....Would you have acted this way, Sir Loras?

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[dyingisnotdead]

I don't like to hunt.

[It's an evasion. And he knows it. For good reason; he most likely would have killed the animal, before he had lost Renly.]

[raffinato]

People do odd things for the sake of glory, I suppose. Perhaps he did not believe the creature had such an ability. Perhaps he thought killing it would stop the curse.

[childofthewickedday]

Perhaps...[That was a fair point. To kill the one cursing you could have either the effect of undoing the curse or possibly killing the only one who may undo the curse]

But do you not think he had killed enough as it was? Why would the knight not have been content with the many animals he had killed before the stag...?

[raffinato]

Men often have hearts full of greed, piccolo. They are never satisfied with small portions. I would have seen him stop. But I cannot speak for what went through his mind.

[empowers]

It sounds like he was wasteful. [ Katniss hates it when people treat hunting like some fun game, for trophy, not for necessity. ] Murderous and wasteful. He probably didn't even care, because he fed his ego.

[childofthewickedday]

Yes. That was my thought when father told this story.

[empowers]

It's amazing to me what people who want for nothing will waste while the rest of the world starves.

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[dragonspeak]

Sounds like the knight didn't believe in curses, or thought the stag was just trying to bluff his way out of danger. You'd think he would be a bit more cautious when the stag started talking to him, but some knights just like to rush into things like the great pr--pr, predictable [he looks oddly triumphant when he finally settles on a word after the initial stuttering] brutes they are.

[Yeah he definitely has someone in mind, that's not obvious at all.]

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[childofthewickedday]

[Mordred's face turns in a mirthful smirk when Merlin points out the fact that the knight overlooked the miracle of a talking stag. But it fades after a moment]

Arthur's knights are not this way, are they Merlin?

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[dragonspeak]

Not his knights, no. [Merlin knows you're listening to this, Arthur.]

Arthur might have been like that once, but he's changed.

[Throwing in a compliment, no big deal.]

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[pratentious]

Or perhaps he was doing it for the love of his people, and did not heed the stag's warning out of blindness.

[ He will murder you so fucking hard, Merlin. ]

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[childofthewickedday]

How was the act for the love of his people?

[advocacy]

[Well, that sounds painfully familiar to someone she knows. It's a good question why people like that insist on destroying everything around them, including themselves, when they know better and could still be better if they really tried.]

Maybe the knight never knew love and so figured even if the curse was real, it wouldn't matter.

[childofthewickedday]

Perhaps... but... do people truly think in such a way?

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[livedtwice]

I personally don't think much glory can be found in killing. Not ultimately. It's those who can give mercy, isn't it?

But that isn't what you asked. I think it would stay his hand, but would it matter, truly? Would it make him a better person because it did?

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[childofthewickedday]

Yes. But perhaps the knight did not see animals as worthy of his mercy.

[A pause]

What do you mean?

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[silverkhaleesi]

The knight was arrogant, wishing to prove himself higher than the stag. He likely did not believe in the words it told him.

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[childofthewickedday]

You do not believe he was higher than the stag?

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[applegoddess]

Maybe... Maybe it was just a story...

[Her world has many fairytales. Wait, she should believe in them, she lives in one back home...]

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[childofthewickedday]

Yes. That is it. But stories are told for a reason.