| End of Darkness | |
|---|---|
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| Creations | |
| Spin Offs | Full Stories
Background Short Stories |
| Chronological Order | |
| Preceded By | None |
| Followed By | The Rise of Lucerne |
| Narration | POV Character Narration, Unreliable |
The End of Darkness is the first book of the New World series, and is the second longest of the series. The end of darkness begins during the days following the Fall of Tree Hill, and tells the events that lead to William Lovie III embarking on the journey, and then the eventual overthrow of Bill Lovie. The story of the end of darkness ends with the events of the Battle of Berne and throughout the story many main characters are killed. The End of Darkness would be the most heavily Lucernian of the stories so far, and it made sure to point to the fact that William Lovie III. was the main character of the series.
The End of Darkness would give a lot of information of several conflicts from the point of view of Bill Lovie reading stories to his young son William Lovie III. These stories were told throughout the three chapters with Bill Lovie as the POV, and during this the Driving Tide would be discussed, the Arnor War, the Bloody Supper, and several other important events were forshadowed or told in their entirety.
The End of Darkness begins with the Kingdom of Lucerne in a terrible position as the King currently in Bill Lovie has lost his mind due to fear, and madness and has alienated most of his vassals into hating him. The prince in William Lovie III. is at this point suffering from depression caused by missing a girl that he has seemingly no memory of, but sees each night in a dream, and this brings him to eventually leave the mountainy capital with a group of his friends and a small military force. Travelling throughout the kingdom he comes to learn that his father has commited attrocities on a scale that noone could have ever thought possible, and he makes the decision to turn against his father's rule and lead the kingdom himself, of which he will do after he has relieved the nearly destroyed city of Tree Hill. Meeting with the king of the neihboring kingdom of Gondor he creates an alliance of which leads to the two working together to clear Gondor's besieged city of Orcs, and then together they fight and clear the city of Tree Hill of Orcs. Following this he discovers the Orcs had been allowed to enter Lucerne with the assistence of his father and after falling in love with a lady of House Scott he travels northward and relunctantly marries Bella Swan before travelling back to the capital to confront his father. Meeting his father and brother in their home he is unable to get vengeance when both use Magi to teleport away from Lucerne, but despite this he is crowned king and begins changing the situation that his father had got them into. The story ends with the final conflict between WIlliam Lovie III. and Sean Lovie and after a long argument between the two Sean kills Amber Heard II. and then is in tern killed by William of whom is devestated by her death but learns of his son and promices to care for him. The prologue is the first glimpse into the White Dragons of Lucerne and Lornax shows a desire to assist but the reasoning behind why they wont is explained when Stragnarax the ancient White Dovah details the last time the White Dovah went to the valley and helped a Lovie.
POV Characters
The end of darkness contains several POV characters in the form of many of the characters that will continue to be the main characters throughout the New World series.
| POV Character | Chapters |
|---|---|
| William Lovie III. |
1, 7, 11, 16, 23, 26, 30, 33, 36, 51 |
| Alice Lovie | 2, 12, 27, 40, 44 |
| Jon Snow | 8, 14, 28, 50 |
| Edward Cullen |
6, 9, 18, 29, 34, 42 |
| Lucas Scott | 4, 20, 49 |
| Hedrik Clegane III. | 3, 10, 15, 41 |
| Leven Martell | 12, 31, 35, 38 |
| Franklin Brent | 5, 13, 24, 37, 48 |
| Brooke Scott |
17, 46 |
| Ezio Ederiz | Prologue, 19, 21, 39, 47 |
| Bill Lovie | 22, 25, 32 |
| Lornax | Epilogue |
Births and Deaths
- Thomas Lovie
- Ashley Lovie
- William Lovie IV.
- Riley Scott
- Lucie Lovie
- Sean Lovie
- Amber Heard II.
Plot Summary
Prologue
Ezio Ederiz
Chapter Details
Chapter One
William Lovie III.
Chapter Details
- An overarching part of the chapter is William's constant dreams of a girl of whom he does not know but feels he does. This foreshadows Alice Lovie of whom during this time Alice Lovie was stuck in Forks and knew nothing of her life previously there were constant references in William`s chapter to trying to remember something in his dreams and becoming increasingly close to remembering who the girl is.
Chapter Two
Alice Lovie
Chapter Details
Alice Lovie is the POV Character during this chapter and during this chapter Alice Lovie takes the POV role and she stands on the balcony of the tavern where she lives and details her life in Forks and the fact that she too dreams constantly of a strange blurred boy that she knows but doesn't know. Alice just like William is finding herself remembering the parts of her life with William to a larger and larger extent, and while once the dreams were all blurry now only William himself is blurry while everyone else appears perfectly. During this time she has a dream about this where she dreams of going to a tournament with the boy who held her hand walking there and then dawned armor with his friends to take part in the tournament. The dream begins with her and the boy alongside Amber, and Jasper watching Franklin Brent bully Meera Reed but before William can step in they watch Lyanna Starke move forward and defend the girl. The tournament would be heavily covered by her and detailed the growing relationship between the boy and Amber Heard II. alongside her relationship with Jasper Cullen. The Tournament named the Nortburg Tournament of 5120 would become a very important moment among the group. Waking up from her day dreams she goes downstairs where she is working as a bar maid at The White Ferret Inn a large tavern in the central district of the large city of Forks. She is happy to be distracted by the arrival of her friend Bella Swan of whom arrives at the tavern with her cousin Brody Swan and several Swan Guards, and at the arrival of Bella the tavern owner allows her to leave for a break and she goes outside with Bella where accompanied by one of the Swan Guards the two girls talk about their lives. Bella is horrified at the prospect of having to marry as her father has begun to discuss with her, and while no betrothals have been set yet she knows the moment grows closer that she will be forced to marry. Attempting to get her friends mind off this Alice discusses with her the breakdown of her relationship with Stephan De'Marco of whom she says she barely even thinks cares about her, and after talking it over for a time the two agree that she should confront Stephan something that Alice says she will do after the tavern closes. Continuing to work she sees the arrival of James Nighting II. of whom she has a romantic interest in but he has never shown anything in return which caused her to begin her relationship which has now fallen apart with Stephen De'Marco. The two catch eacother's eye and James comes to sit at the bar in front of her and the two begin talking with Alice surprised to find James flirting with her, and despite having not ended things with Stephen Alice finds herself flirting back, and they continue talking and flirting for some time before the tavern owner comes down half drunk and tells Rosalie to close the tavern. When the tavern closed Alice would leave the tavern escorted by James Nighting II. heading towards the Swan Estates where Stephan De'Marco was staying as he was a member of the House Swan guards and walking slowly as she doesn't want to leave the side of James they eventually part with a kiss to her cheek from James as he walks away leaving her to go to the Swan Keep gates alone. Alice would be allowed through the gates without really an questions as they knew Alice to be a friend of Bella and the lover of Stephan she would travel into the barracks where she would enter his room and discover the horrible truth. When she arrived at Swan Keep she was greeted by the guards of whom led her into the back stables where Bella was spending her day, and the moment that she saw Bella she begin sobbing and fell to the ground where she was met by the arms of Bella surrounding her in a loving hug. Alice clung to Bella for sometime before she was finally calmed down enough to explain to Bella what had happened. She made Bella promise not to do anything about it, and Bella in a shocking move refused to let this go, and told Alice that the first chance she got she would be telling her father of whom she knew would have him removed from Forks. Alice attempted to make her change her mind but Bella was not moving in her opinion of what she had to do, so Alice simply clung to Bella and prayed that nothing would happen. Alice would fall asleep held by Bella and falling asleep she would dream of this different world with the blurred boy and this time she dreamed of her standing on the balcony of a large tower within a mountain and preparing for bed she would hear the door open and find the form of a boy who called her sister and then begin to look at her very strange before he lost his mind and attempted to rape her after she told him to leave. Fighting him off the noises would alert the boy in her dreams of whom this time she could make out his face and she watched as the two fought on the floor and the boy was unable to accept that he had hurt Alice, and thus the boy started to kill Sean by strangling him. As he was strangling Sean it was Alice that put her hand on his shoulder and whispered for him to stop. Every ounce of his soul wanted to kill his brother in that moment but he looked to Alice and saw tears streaming down her face, and he couldn't bear to add more pain to her, and thus grudgingly the boy of whom is now all but revealed as William Lovie III. did stop and Sean ran out of the room. William would hold Alice tight as by this point guards had entered the situation, and Bill came to room feigning confusion over what had happened but quickly in order to keep the support of William he commanded Draco Highmore to put Sean in chains and lock him in the bottom of the tower. It was in this moment that Bill saw his daughter in a different light then he had ever seen her before, but the voices in his head would keep him from revealing anything real to his children and he would eventually leave without honesty. Waking from the dream Alice would for the first time realize that she was dreaming about people who were her family, and she would wake to find no Bella so she left the room and went downstairs to get something to eat finding Renee Swan and talking with Renee she tells Renee about having a dream about a place and describing the Sky Towers Renee reveals that the place is the Sky Towers and lets Alice know that is the home of House Lovie, and the chapter ends with Alice realizing who she is. The chapter ends with Alice Lovie returning to the tavern where she goes straight to bed as she doesn't have to work throughout the day due to the intervention of Bella Swan who pays the tavern owner to give Alice the day off, and sleeping in her bed she doesn't dream for the first time in a long time, but wakes in the middle of the night and goes to the balcony where she looks out and sees James Nighting II. talking with an older man.
Chapter Three
Hedrik Clegane III.
Chapter Details
Hedrik Clegane III. is the POV Character of this chapter and the chapter begins with Hedrik speaking to his father about the proposed betrothal of Hedrik and Accia Potenza of whom he admits to being his lover, but indicates that this love is one of friendship and he doesn't see it going further then friendship, and wanting his son to be happy but also wanting to honor the relationship that he has with House Potenza Rupert is relunctent to simply end the betrothal instead telling Hedrik that if he wants something different he needs to find a better match. Following this he is riding on the road with his sister at his side, and his lover Accia Potenza, and best friends Meinolf Ostriger, and Konstantin Gaimen while they follow behind his father of whom from his own personal thoughts seems to be very loyal towards but has a growing lack of respect for several of the lords around his father including most critically Vopiscus Lentini of whom he sees as a coward turning his father into a coward. Reaching the gates of Stillwood he watches his father and Vopiscus meet with Caius Norelli while ignoring the lord of House Stillwood in the form of Gregory Stillwood, and realizing the insult that is being made he approaches Gregory alongside Meinolf Ostriger and the two discuss with Gregory that Hedrik will speak with his father in regards to the insult. Hedrik would join his family in moving north against the spreading rebellion of a group calling itself the Seven Knights of Aerene, and in this he would lead a cavalry force heading directly towards Castle Ongrill of which they had heard had already fallen to the rebels.
- During this chapter there would be a number of auxillery characters introduced as well as more of Lucerne becomes uncovered in the form of Lole. During Chapter Three Hedrik Clegane III. made his first venture into the story, and he would introduce the characters to the idea of evil in Sean Lovie, as well as Rachel Wood and many of the nobles in Forks and Lole. This chapter would greatly branch out and become expanded on in the Short Story Evil Mind`s of which further followed the events and detailed the happenings that led to the love affair between Hedrik and Rachel as well as the coruption and madness of Sean Lovie.
Chapter Four
Lucas Scott
Chapter Details
Lucas Scott was the POV Character of Chapter Four and during this he dealt with the fading situation in Tree Hill, and during the first part of the chapter he spends time with Haley of whom he is at first talking with on the battlements of the Tree Hill keep with Caryl Todrinnel and they are talking about the recent appearance of food within the food storage of the caverns beneath the Tree Hill keep and while Caryl pushed the idea that this was the work of Glaurung it was Lucas that in his own mind would think to himself that this was impossible and made plans to sneak into the storage that night and observe what happened. Lucas would hide himself in the storeroom and waited all night until something happened when Morrigan entered the storeroom seemingly through a wall as she had used Magi to get inside. Watching her from his hiding place she would summon the food from her home inside the storeroom, and it was only when she was completed her ritual that she saw that she was being watched. Lucas would confront Morrigan of whom he demanded how she had entered the food stuffs of the city and why she was giving them food, and when she was truthful telling him that she was a member of a special group and had been commanded to save the city he would demand the truth not believing her. As they spoke he begin to remember bits of memories from the initial Orc assault on the city and sensing his regaining memory she would use her Magi to take him back to the events of the initial assault on Tree Hill. With his memories restored including the fact that he had been mortally wounded and saved by Morrigan he would agree to keep her a secret but demanded that the two speak every day about what was happening and that she told him everything she was planning and having longed to be closer to Lucas for months it was Morrigan that readily agreed to this. The next day Lucas Scott gives a speech where despite knowing that the food was the work of Morrigan he declares it an act of Glaurung himself to keep them alive and his speech brings about the first sounds of happiness from the crowd and over the course of the day he works about schedules where the women will help distribute the food and rebuild their broken stocks of agriculture which has sprouted up in the city. As Lucas goes to his room to go to sleep he is exhausted but his exhaustion ends when he sees Morrigan sitting at a chair in his room and talking to her she tells him about a horrifying development that she has uncovered in the army of Orcs seiging the city and reveals that she has been controlling the Orc leader to keep Tree Hill alive. She reveals that she is being confronted by a sister of hers named Gerlinde Jocic and her sister has raised an army of Goblins and Orcs that she is using to bypass Morrigans Orc army and attack the city of Tree Hill. Morrigan says she tried to fight her but Gerlinde fled to a stronghold of the goblin Chigdrask north west of the city and she needs Lucas's help in defeat her sister at the camp of Chigdrask and despite his still skepticism towards Morrigan he agrees to gather men to him who will join him assisting Morrigan. Lucas goes to the Scott Keep and meets with several of his friends in the form of Loras Tyrell, Oliver Slinde, Lucas Oakheart, and Jake James. As he takes the group to the food storemoom he is prepared to meet with Morrigan but instead they find Caryl Todrinnel and Morrigan and it is then they Caryl reveals that she in fact not Caryl but actual an angel of sorts named Roswita and that she will portal them inside the camp once Morrigan is able to get inside. Morrigan portals out of the room and as they wait for nearly an hour for her they talk with Roswita and learn that she found Carly dead outside of the city but wanted to help so she used Magi to take on her physical appearance and has been helping ever since in whatever way she can. After almost two hours Caryl's portal stone begins pulsing and she opens the portal and walks through and Lucas follows behind her and then the rest of the group and they find themselves inside the ruined keep of Oliver's family causing an enraged Oliver to let out a tear at what has become of his families home. Finding themselves there they follow Morrigan into fighting against Gerlinde and her goblin defenders and they are able to defeat the goblins killing them to a man and they watching as Gerlinde and Morrigan fight a horrifying battle joined by Roswita and after Morrigan takes a horrible wound to her shoulder its Roswita that delivers a glancing blow to Gerlinde knocking her down. As Gerlinde attempts to escape once again she would be stopped by Morrigan of whom was able to use Magi to lock her away into a Soulstone and thus keep her secret alive. A badly wounded Morrigan explains that the army of Chigdrask has already left for Tree Hill and remains behind with Roswita but portals Lucas and his forces out of the keep and back to Tree Hill where they rush to the keep and set of the warning alarm and then making their way to the walls where they find the archers there already firing on the rushing army.
- At the end of the chapter the Raid of 5123 occurs as the Orcs launch a massive assault on the walls and are nearly able to defeat the defenders, but even in defeat they deal immense casualties to the defenders.
- Alongside Lucas the appearance of the Tree Hill characters happens of which especially charaters such as Brooke Scott make their entrances and they described the events of Tree Hill, and a lot of hints were made about the fact that they believed they were deliberatly attacked by the Orcs under the wishes of Bill Lovie. The Siege of Tree Hill would be particularly bloody, and it would have a distinctly dark tone to these chapters with only the growing love between Haley, and Lucas offsetting all the darkness in the chapters.
Chapter Five
Franklin Brent
Chapter Details
In Chapter Five Franklin Brent of the western lands makes his first appeance as a POV Character in chapter Five. Franklin Brent makes the first introduction of what becomes known as the Lands of the west mainly focusing on House Brent, and their liege Lord House Ordos, but he travels to Hillsbrad and meets with House Greymane members, and other western Nobles about a serious bandit situation. When Franklin leaves his home he says goodbye to Karyl Reyne of whom we learn is his wife, and an extremely beautiful young girl of whom appears very devoted towards Franklin but he is somewhat cold to her. Franklin's father calls for Franklin to his council chambers and arriving there Franklin finds his father Franklin, his uncle Harvin, and to his suprise his brother Thomas of whom Franklin in his mind thinks on his brother with disgust. Reading the summons they realize that Franklin has been summoned to Hillsbrad by Lord Genn Greymane and at this command it is decided that he and his brother Thomas will travel to Hillsbrad to meet with the Arch Lord of the Grand State of the Westerlands. Franklin Brent during the end of the chapter goes northward with Dexter Hill with a troop of Brent forces, while Dexter Hill leads a small troop of irregular troops that were to attack the bandit forces arrayed around the area. In what became the brief siege of Tollsen Franklin Brent, and Dexter Hill alongside many other western Nobles were able to dislodge the bandits that had taken control of the castle. As they left the scene Franklin Brent discovered evidence from torturing a bandit alongside Dexter Hill that James Lovie II. had funded the bandits taking the castle, and they were simply awaiting more supplies and money before they were going to gather more strength and attack Marburg using the assistence of the Principality of Limca.
Chapter Six
Edward Cullen
Chapter Details
Edward Cullen is the POV Character of this chapter and during the chapter he is sitting on his broom stick flying beside his best friend Hilary Swift and the two are silent and as Edward flies he thinks on what they are leaving - describing that he was in Hogwarts and the violence and death that they were leaving behind - but he is taken out of his day dreaming by Hilary who begins lowering her broom to the ground and following her they land and without a word they begin setting up a tent using Magi and then get inside and curl up together in what he thinks is not romantic at all and then fall asleep. Edward and Hilary stop in Brill first where they meet with Hilary's family of whom have not seen her for years, and the two spend nearly a week there before finally leaving to go to Lucerne where Hilary will join Edward at the Lucernian Academy. The two arrive in Gulltown where they are greeted by several members of House Shephard of whom will be accompanying Edward and Hilary to Lucerne where a member of there family will be going to the school. Edward, Hilary and Claire Shephard arrive at the gates of Lucerne and while Claire is greeted by several members of House Shephard and friends at the gates no one is waiting for Edward outside the gates which shocks him and brings about the first pangs of fear about his position returning to Lucerne. Saying goodbye to Claire it is Edward and Hilary that make there way inside the city through the massive tunnel of Lucerne and moving inside the city he can't help but notice it appears more worn down then when he left and the number of homeless people have gone up immeserably from when he had left. Travelling to the Lucerne Hold he is once again shocked when he sees the Gate to Lucerne Hold has turned into a fortress and going to the guard there he is unable to get inside Lucerne Hold as he doesn't have papers proving his residency but is able to convinse a guard who he is and the guard leaves to go and get his father. Sitting together on the ground across from the Lucerne Hold gatehouse Hilary tries to console Edward of whom is coming to quickly understand that things had changed for him, and after almost an hour his father arrives at the gate and gets Edward through taking him and Hilary back to the Cullen Estate as despite Edward wanting to see his friends its Carlisle his father who tells them that won't be possible tonight. Arriving home he finds Blake Cullen his twin sister waiting for him, and while at first she appears kind and gentle once Hilary is taken to her room to go to sleep Blake takes Edward outside to the gardens and slaps him the face before the two argue as it is clear that she has a lot of bitterness towards him, and as their argument continues she begins lashing out describing all the cruel feelings of his former best friends and eventually overcome with sadness over what his sister says to him he retreats to his room where he hides himself under the bed crying while realizing that basically his entire life may have fallen apart, and makes a wish for the night that things will get better for him tomorrow. Edward wakes up and from his thoughts it becomes clear that weeks have passed since the horribly akward reuinion of himself to the Shadow Council and he describes how Tanya wont speak to him, and he has really only spent time with Hilary and William since his return as the others are cold to him and leave him out of whatever the group might be doing. The only positive thing other then William and Hilary in his life arrives at the door in the form of Hostella Hale who comes inside and kissing him its revealed that when Tanya refused to see him in his depression he grew close to Hostella and the two are now a couple of sorts. Instead of getting better things take a dramatic turn for the worse when Hostella drowns while following him to the water while he was swimming, and this destroys his relationship completely with Jasper, and Leven also sides against him leaving only Emmett, and William on the Shadow Council who still care for him. Emotionally destroyed Edward stays in his room for days and its several days into his self isolation that Lyanna Starke a member of the Cloud Council arrives at his room and the two have a long conversation where Lyanna is able to convince him not to give up on life preaching about the value of life thorugh her eyes as a Dragonoph Priestess. Feeling better after the conversation he speaks with his sister of whom attacks him verbally but during this conversation she lets slip that Tanya had been coming to the estate every day trying to see him and with this Edward storms out and gets on his horse and leaves Lucerne travelling towards the House Denali estates.
Chapter Seven
William Lovie III.
Chapter Details
William Lovie III. is the POV Character of this chapter and during during this chapter he wakes in a cold sweat and unwilling to let things lie he go upstairs to his fathers room and finds his father at his desk reading a book and when William asks to see the book Bill is unusually harsh and hides the book behind a painting locking it inside a chest hidden in the wall. Speaking with his father he demands to know where Amber went, and when he asks his father Bill tells him that Amber is living Forks now, and refuses to return to Lucerne, and all of this brings up memories for William of Amber. He spends time with Leven and Emma Bell during the early part of the chapter and he begins joking about how funny a girl named Alice is, and they have no idea who hes talking about, and while he is beggining to have true flashes he to doesn't know and tries to laugh it off. Emma leaves with her mother Catherine, and Leven remains behind staying in William's bed as he finds comfort in his friend. Sleeping he dreams of the events following Alice's dreams from the previous chapter and in this dream William would stay with the girl the entire night letting her sleep in his bed for the night to keep her calm, and then in the morning his aunt Catherine Bell arrived at the tower at his request and watched over her as William needed to deal with Sean. Leaving the girl crying with his aunt William told Hayden Percy to take him to Sean, and Draco would tell him that this wasn't the time and that judging from what just happened Bill wouldn't want him to do that. William would upon his failure to convince Hayden attempt to convince Draco, but despite Draco wanting to do this he was hamstrung by his honor to the king of Lucerne. William would let it rest for a night because even in his hatred and anger towards his brother he knew that the girl that he loved so deeply needed him more then his vengeance. Returning to the girl she fell into his arms as soon as she saw him, and Catherine left them to go and find her brother and try to learn more, and the rest of the day the two would talk, and Alice would tell William yet again how much she wanted their father to just reach out and say something to her. Alice was very open to revealing that even indifference would be preferable to the way he treated her now, and this feeling only made William hate his father more. William knew that Sean would just try this again so he decided that he needed to so greatly shame Sean that he would leave the city. Speaking to Jasper Hale, and Emmett McCarty about what had happened they would come up with idea of him challenging Sean and following through on this William went to the town crier the next morning and sent out a decree for Sean to duel him the next day. William never believed Sean would show up considering how skilled with a blade that William was, and the fact that Sean had little to no skill at the art of battle. But when the day did come he stood on the steps of Lucerne surrounded by a massive crowd, and saw Sean walking down the road towards him wearing the armor that he remembered had been given to Sean by Maron Scorpian as a gift on his twelfth birthday. As Sean walked towards him Alice begged William to not give Sean the gratification that this fight would give him. She knew that for Sean the hatred of William meant that he was probably willing to give up his life so that William would have to carry the title of kin slayer around with him for the rest of his life. William wanted to listen to his sister but when he saw the scarf on her neck he remembered the fear he had that his sister was dead or raped and could not. The fight went basically as everyone had assumed it would as William and his vastly superior fighting skills brutalized Sean throughout the fight. William threw his sword away towards the end of the fight and beat Sean to within an inch of death as the crowd surrounding them cheered him on. William is awoken the following morning by his aunt Catherine Lovie of whom tells him that there has been a rebellion in the lands of south-eastern central Lucerne and she is raising a force in order to take the fight to the rebels and gain control of the situation, and she is there to say goodbye but heavily hints she wants William to convince his father to let him come, and realizing this William storms into his fathers room where he finds him standing naked staring out the window talking to himself. As William is preparing to leave for the events of south-eastern Lucerne he would return to the Sky Tower to say goodbye to his brother, but on the way is stopped by Blake Cullen of whom reveals to him that she is pregnant, and William discovers to his shock that she has not slept with anyone except for him as Jasper had never taken their relationship that far. William's conversation with Blake is cut short by the arrival of Jasper who tells him that there has been a major problem at the Tower of Solice, and that his father has asked that he deal with the situation himself as he is busy at the moment. Jasper leaves the room not realizing what he had walked in on and William stays and talks with Blake promising her that he will care for her and the baby and that she need not worry and with this the two kiss before William leaves her to lead a force to the Tower of Solace. Leave the Cloud Tower he leads a force of a hundred men at arms alongside the entire Praetorian Guard towards the Tower of Solace and while marching through the streets towards the Tower of Solace he is cheered on by people who line the streets and upon reaching the walls leading into the Tower of Solace he finds bodies lining the road and the gate has been bashed in from the inside. Entering the courtyard there are more bodies as the signs of fighting are everywhere but finally survivors as he is approached by several men carrying the sigil of House Nighting and one of them introduces himself as Ludolf Nighting and tells William that they have fought off the attackers who have fled the tower, but while talking to Ludolf its Sean that comes out of the tower surrounded by many of his men and an argument begins between the two brothers. Before their is violence Carlisle Cullen arrives with several high knights of Lucerne and sends Sean away back to the Sky Towers where he has been ordered to meet with his father and discuss his new holding as the Tower of Solace has been taken from him. Carlisle and William talk for a time but this too ends when Carlisle makes it clear that William cannot enter the Tower of Solace and that while Carlisle wants to be truthful he is unwilling to betray his king James Lovie II. The chapter ends with William travelling through the gates of Lucerne alongside his aunt for the conflict against the rebels.
- During this chapter William continues to dream of a blurred face girl in much the same way that Alice was dreaming of a blurred face boy. During these dreams he remembered the events of the Duel on the Steps and the consequences of his loss in morality following the departure of Edward Cullen. More is detailed during this time about the relationship with Britney Hemsworth of whom by this point is long gone, but her memory and the relationship between the two was kept by Bill Lovie in terms of what had happened during the history he cannot rememeber.
Chapter Eight
Jon Snow
Chapter Details
Jon Snow is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he is sitting at a table with his brother Robb Starke and together the two are drinking and talking about their lives, and as they talk the conversation shifts to Jon's mother of whom Robb has never mentioned before and Jon tells Robb about his mother. The arrival of Catelyn, and Sansa Starke causes Robb to leave with them and Jon is left alone at the table where he thinks further on his life back in Northerbourne with his mother, and watching Catelyn scowl at him he almost cries as he thinks on his own mother and how much he misses her.
Chapter Nine
Edward Cullen
Chapter Details
Edward Cullen is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he rides beside the leadership of the Lucernian army raised by Catherine Lovie in order to aid the forces of Lucerne who are fighting a major fight against the rebels known as the Seven Knights of Aerene. As they march Edward can't ignore the distance between himself and the Shadow Council and this is only made more clear when he William, Leven, Christopher, and Catherine are riding together and he listens as they discuss that he will be joining Christopher in meeting with the forces of House Shephard and joining that army. Edward is screaming inside to resist this but refuses to embaress himself and also wants to show he is loyal to William and thus agrees without disagreement to go with Christopher. As Christopher says goodbye to Catherine its Edward that tries to talk to William but he is blocked by Leven and although he watches William attempt to let Edward talk he almost starts crying out of embaressment and decides to leave saying a quick goodbye and following Christopher. Arriving at the meeting point with House Shephard it is Edward that is shocked by the size of their forces, but has little time to think on it as a small group of cavalry break off from the main Shephard forces and ride towards them. The group arrives and Christopher greets several of them revealing Jack Shephard, Evangeline Shephard, Reginald Kane, Sargon Gurse, and as the group talks one girl who had been in the back gets off her horse and greets Edward who recegnizes her as Eura Clune a girl who he had went to the Lucernian Academy with. Edward has a long conversation with Eura while the nobles talk and during this conversation he quickly realizes that Eura is obsessed with William following a sexual relationship they shared while Edward was away in Hogwarts and while Edward attempts to tell her that the chances of them getting together are slim she refuses to hear this and hints that she plans to seduce William when she sees him. The conversation ends and the group leads the force led by Edward towards the main Gulltown army and the now combined forces begin marching towards Castle Vuneria where the castle is held by loyalists under Edrik Vuneria but is under siege by rebels under the command of Taegar Duneria II. Arriving at Castle Vuneria the group sees the large force from House Duneria placing the castle under siege and discusses what strategy they want to do with most under the lead of Sargon Gurse, and Evangeline Shephard wanting to just destroy the rebel force without discussionm, and Edward argues for negotiation but Edward is unable to convinse the group and it appears this will be the strategy until Eura steps in and is able to convinse them to allow her to go and speak with Taegar Duneria.
Chapter Ten
Hedrik Clegane III.
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Hedrik Clegane III. is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he returns from the fighting at Ongrill to lole where he meets with his father of whom tells him that he needs to lead the Lole army southward into Southern Lole and support House Stillwood who has come under assault from bandits. At the end of the chapter he would take time away from the fighting and travel with Rachel Wood southward by boat to a small island. Traveling up the island's stone staircase they would reach the top of a cliff side where they he would show her off the side where you could see the smoking wreck of Tree Hill.
- During this chapter he would introduce many of the political behind the scenes goings on including the actual scope of the invasion of Tree Hill, and would mention for the first time the events of the Plague of which was the assasination campaign launched by Bill Lovie against Rebels in the Kingdom of Lucerne.
Chapter Eleven
William Lovie III.
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William Lovie III. is the POV Character of this chapter and it would begin with William moving towards Castle Hosk where they know that House Ghelen has put the castle under siege and that battle looks to not be far off. Arriving at Castle Hosk they see the Ghelen army having surrounded the small castle and seeing this William meets with Lord Arry Ghelen who details that his brother, sister in law, and nephew were murdered within Castle Hosk by his nephews betrothed Elsa Hosk and that he wants justice. Discovering that there are three witnesses to this William sends Emmett, and Dylan to meet with the witnesses while he travels into Castle Hosk to meet with Lady Hosk under a white flag of truce. While they waited for the Maester witness for Elsa it was William and Elsa that would have sex in chambers of Elsa and following giving into to having sex with Elsa the two would talk over many things and even discussed how Elsa hoped their sex resulted in a child of which if it did she revealed she would not ask anything other then legitimization for the child from William. Brightwater where they two members of the Seven remain with their last holding. Soon after their arrival white flags fly over the walls of Brightwater and the gate opens followed by several men riding out carrying a white flag with Catherine recengizing one of the men as Wendel Floren the lord of House Floren. Meeting with Lord Wendel Floren he notices Eddara Floren is one of the other riders while Wendel introduces the other as Brandon Floren, and the group discusses the situation of Brightwater. Taking Having returned to Lucerne William, and Leven wait at the gates of Lucerne where they greet the return of Lanna Lannister to the city, and William finding her as beautiful as he remembered he talks to her after she is unable to find Jasper, and seducing her she follows him to his fathers throne room where he demands everyone to leave and then sleeps with her on the floor in front of the throne. Lanna and William have a long discussion about their respective lives and the discussion of her child comes up implying for the first time that her son Termin Jest could be Williams, but this is laughed off by William and following this the two sleep together but are stopped during this by Catherine Bell his aunt of whom he has a serious conversation with about his life. Discusted with himself for this he listens to his aunt and goes to Edward and the two come together to decide its time to truly change thus marking the begining of the Journey as William could no longer take the person hes becoming alongside the increasingly depressing dreams he suffered from each night and was forced to attempt to deal with them through finding the places in his dreams of which a common place was a tavern in Forks. Confronting his father Bill would at first completely reject any idea of him travelling outside of Lucerne, as Bill understood that he was beyond hated outside of the capital, and that worried him for what people might do to the prince. In the end though he realized that William was not going to take no for an anwser and relented by sending an elite troop of soldiers with him, including Carlisle Cullen of whom William had lost all trust in. The group would travel southward leaving Lucerne through the great tunnel of the city, and leaving by horse William would on the recomendations of Edward send Leven away to the east to eventually prepare for their arrival in Stormwind, while the rest of the group travels to Forks. While they pass Nortburg they are met by Dylan Steinmare, and Radlet Scarlet of whom join them on the further journey southward.
Chapter Twelve
Leven Martell
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Leven Martell is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter Leven travels apart from the rest of the group alongside Lyanna Starke towards Stormwind on the wishing of William of whom wants one of his most trusted people to go that direction, and following the words of William she and her sisters make there way to Lole where they are to be met by members of House Starke, and her arrival there causes her to meet many of the influential people there including Eddard Starke of whom warns her of the dangers of William`s father.
- Chapter Twelve includes the meeting of Obella Martell, and Robb Starke and the growth of their love affair of which before this they knew nothing of eachother. Leven meets with Jamie Lannister as well, and during their meeting she can`t help but notice the similarities between he and his sister, and then her children.
Chapter Thirteen
Franklin Brent
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Franklin Brent is the POV Character of this chapter and during his chapter he travels to Marburg with Karyl Reyne where he meets with the leadership of the city in the form of his father and his fathers vassals and attempts to convince them that the bandits are funded by the king James Lovie and to give him more forces so that he might attack. Franklin stays several days in Marberg waiting for the arrival of House Ordos of whom is sending delegates there at the request of his father so that House Ordos can hear of what is happening, and while waiting he continues attempting to convinse them further about his designs. Franklin's cousin Kyle Darkwood arrives in the town by chance and Franklin attempts to convinse him to come with him to Limca but Kyle is cold to the idea telling Franklin how little there is to gain by going against the king in whatever violent attept he is making. After Kyle Darkwood leaves Franklin is disapointed in his continues failures and returns to his room where he finds Karyl waiting for him and not wanting her to see him down he barks orders at her which in his head he is disgusted at himself for the way he speaks to her but he feels a growing desire to touch her which scares him. Sleeping for several hours he leaves the room to go and find his father but is stopped by lord Deitrik Greentail of whom tells him that he has had a change of heart from his earlier refusal to assist Franklin and will send his son Estmar Greentail with a force of one thousand to support Franklin's movement and at this news Franklin feels better and goes to see Kyle but before he can its his sister Fiona who tells him that House Ordos has arrived at the city. Meeting with Coyle the day after Coyle agreed to allow House Brent to intervene its Coyle that lets slip to him that Karyl Reyne has been also moving in behind him and furthering his points to those he speaks, and Kyle Darkwood insults Franklin over the fact that he hasn't actually been convinsing anyone but actually it was Karyl. Furious at Karyl he storms to find her but she remains calm and tells him that she is his wife and she will do anything to help him, and she attempts to be physically intimate with him, but we discover that he is unable to touch her due to severe distress she touches him. Karyl attempts to console him as he breaks down as he was shown to be so weak, but he won't let her and he leaves her alone, and gathers his men. Following this Franklin Brent marches at the head of the force from Marburg he has been able to gather northwards towards the town of Limca where Dexter Hill has told him the remaining forces of the Badgers have gathered under the command of Kieth Schwartz. Meeting with the force of Dexter Hill outside of Limca he discovers the army of Limca having gathered outside the walls and sends out a scout with a white flag which leads to a meeting between the forces of Franklin and the forces of House Haushka. Meeting with Lord Swen Haushka and his brother Ottkar Haushka he and Dexter are finally vindicated when they discover that Kieth Schwartz stands with them openly revealing his presence among the army of House Haushka. Following the discussion the forces of Franklin Brent place the town under siege while the forces of House Haushka launch attempts to break the siege but are repulsed through the work of Dexter Hill whose cavalry push back any attempt to break the siege. Karyl Reyne arrives at the siege camp several weeks into the siege and Franklin is suprised when he is quite excited to see her, and for a moment he wants to reach out and touch her but before he can he is overcome by his fears and pulls back. Karyl and Franklin spend time in his tent where they discuss what has happened during the weeks of the siege and Karyl gives him advise of what he should do advising him to turn Swen Haushka against Kieth Schwartz through trickery and trusting her advise Franklin raises a white flag bringing the two sides to discussion.
Chapter Fourteen
Jon Snow
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Jon Snow is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he travels to Castle Beyne alongside his brother Robb, sister Sansa, and best friend Samwell Tarly of whom are visiting Castle Beyne to meet with their long time friends there.
Chapter Fifteen
Hedrik Clegane III.
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Chapter Fifteen is the POV of Hedrik Clegane III. and he is summoned back to Lole by his father of whom says that things are happening in Forks that need their attention and despite his reluctance to leave the detiorating situation in southern Lole he leaves behind his brother Mathew in command and travels back to Lole. The meeting in Lole is attended as well by the members of House Swan towards the end of whom describe how they are going to side with William, and that they want all of their vassals to support them as they are going to be summoned by House Forks. Learning that Charles Swan has received a letter from Catherine Bell the aunt of William Lovie III. that the crown prince will be traveling southward in an effort to see the kingdom and find out the problems his father wont let him hear about, and Charles as the head of the Swan Rebellion is preparing to use this opportunity to turn William to their side. Having seen what is happening in southern Lole and to a worse extent in the Stormlands its Hedrik Clegane that speaks up loudly supporting House Swan's position and with his indorcement House Stillwood supports them as well leading Rupert with no option but to also support House Swan. House Clegane and House Swan siding together leads to a dramatic shift and basically all the houses follow their lead. Towards the end of the chapter many nobles from Highgarden and its vassals arrive in Forks where they have come to meet with the young prince of whom they also promise they are going to support in his mission. The Tyrell's arrival comes at the end of the chapter and is led by Garlan, and Loras Tyrell of whom are first cousins of William Lovie III. although niether have met William due to him never being allowed out of Lucerne.
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Sixteen is the POV chapter of William Lovie III. and in this chapter the group arrives at the outskirts of Forks and taking a moment to soak in the moment they eventually enter Forks, and after word begins to spread of his arrival he is swarmed by the crowds of loving onlookers. Making their way into Swan Keep he meets with Charlie Swan of whom basically tells him that he had been told that the prince would be coming south to Forks and that he had already called many of his loyalists to Forks in order to meet him. Following his meeting with Charlie Swan he is able to meet and become enamored by Bella Swan, while the others spend time in the tavern waiting for him, and meet unknowingly with Alice Lovie, and Rosalie Hale. He spends hours with Bella Swan just talking in the Swan stables, before they eventually go to the tavern and find his friends have met her friends and the group is all in quite the romance outside of Edward of whom is married to Tanya Cullen in all but name. William leaves with Bella and the two spend hours back in the Swan stables, and then when they realize what time it is he takes Bella home to Swan Keep where her father has been so busy planning everything he doesn`t fully understand what she was doing. The following day William can barely think of anything outside of Bella Swan but he is forced to when he meets with the representatives of Highgarden, Forks, and Lole of whom all wish to know his plans, and after his discussions with Charlie Swan he on the spot decides to rally the Valley of Lucerne in order to retake Tree Hill. When it is brought up the rumors of who was at fault for the Fall of Tree Hill he tells the assembled group that if his father was reponsible then his father will be brought to justice. Following this meet and during the remainder of the chapter William and Bella spend the night together before he walks her home to visit with his friends of whom are back at the tavern.
Chapter Seventeen
Brooke Scott
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Brooke Scott is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter she is in Tree Hill during the siege, and by this point she further documents how bad things have gotten in the city, and dreams of her life before the siege and how nice things were back then. She also details more of what happened the day of the siege, as well as the events since the fall of the city including the fact that for the last significant portion of time the Orcs have done little more then wait out the ever dwindling number of survivors while constantly attempting to kill Lucas through duels. Trying to find peace during this time she spends a lot of time by herself and visiting one of her favorite spots she instead of finding peace finds Julian, and Lindsay Baker kissing and she watches this in shock as they are brother and sister, but eventually Julian departs leaving Lindsayh behind and when Brooke goes to leave Lindsay speaks to her revealing she knew that she was there the entire time. Going inside and talking to Lindsay she discovers the girl that was so angry all that time ago is now nearly mad as Lindsay questions whether Brooke is trying to get between her and Julian and despite saying she is not Lindsay proceeds to threaten her and reveal that she murdered her sister, and parents after they tried to get between her and Julian. Revealing to Brooke the events of the murders she attempts to strike Brooke but Brooke is able to dodge the attack and get out of the house running to the keep to find her brother who she knows will keep her safe. Instead of finding her brother she finds her father of whom questions her as to what is wrong and in a moment of weeakeness she reveals the truth and instead of protecting her Dan threatens Lucas's life if she reveals what happened with Lindsay and following this she runs to her room locking the door behind her and crying. Waking up the next morning she goes to the kitchen to find breakfest but while walking in the halls is grabbed from behind and pulled into the basement where she is confronted by Jaime Typhon of whom reveals himself as a survivor of House Typhon and the two speak for some time with Jaime demanding that Brooke look deeper into what happened at Tree Hill and she agrees wanting to help Jaime and work against her father. Led on by the plotting of Jaime she gets him inside the inner keep where he tells her is the evidence of what happened to get the Orcs inside of the city, and entering the room he tells her he apologizes and then ties her hands and puts a knife to her kneck. Using the threat of killing Brooke he is able to get himself past the inner keep guards and into the hall room with Dan where Nathan is also present, and Jaime threatens to kill Dan if he doesn't hear the truth but to the shock of Brooke and confusion of Jaime Dan just moves behind his desk to grab a bow from the wall and as Jaime screams to know the truth Dan just begins laughing causing Jaime to let go of Brooke and charge at Dan knocking Nathan to the ground, but as he gets near Dan he is struck in the leg by an arrow by Lucas who drops the bow and goes to Brooke while Nathan restrains Jaime who continues screaming. Now restrained Jaime begins openly talking about what he knows and the fact that Dan Scott had sealed his family into the keep as well as known about the coming of the Orcs, and while speaking he is struck through the face by an arrow as Dan kills him.
Chapter Eighteen
Alice Lovie
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Alice Lovie is the POV Character of Chapter Eighteen and during this chapter she is watching James Nighting talking with an older man and listening in she hears them discuss him having to do something, but she cant make out what the details are. James enters the tavern and Alice goes downstairs and at first is very excited to see him but this changes when she sees his face and realizes that he is sad, and wanting to comfort him she goes to give him a hug which he falls into. After some time talking Alice realized that James was there with orders to kill her and realizing this the two argued over this with Alice playing to his emotions and eventually causing him to come to the realization that he would not be able to kill Alice, and with this moment his father James the Elder smashed the door down using Magi knocking down his son and leaving him unconscious. Alice would see this and rushed to the side of James the younger where after seeing that he was alive she and James the elder spoke for some time with James the elder hinting that her brother was on his way to the city but was unwilling to reveal his identity despite the fact that he was going to kill her. As James the Elder prepared to kill her with a killing curse it was james the younger that gained consciousness and stopped his father by stabbing him through the back killing him instantly and leaving James the younger emotionally broken. Alice would attempt to console him but he refused her touch and picked up his father preparing to take him away but before he left he forced Alice to promise that when the time came she would lie and say that she had killed his father after he had kidnapped her from the tavern and taken her to a forest. Alice would follow him riding on the horse with him as they took his fathers dead body out of Forks and into the forest west of Forks, and it was here at a small cabin that James would take her to stay for a few days to make the story make sense. Arriving at the cabin at night it was Alice and James that discussed everything that had happened and Alice attepted to get James to forgive himself, but she would fail and despite both describing their love for the other it was James that left her to sleep alone while he told he would be in the main room and they could talk the next day. While Alice slept that night an emotionally distraught James Nighting II. would leave her without a word riding southward towards Tree Hill where he planned to return to his family and try and find some kind of peace over what he had done, but he did leave behind a letter that detailed how much he had loved her and his involvement in what she would eventually realize was her memory loss. Alice would wake in the morning and discover he had left and after reading his letter she would ride back to Forks on the other horse where as she arrived she was stopped by a troop of cavalry led by Nerio Swann and Nerio knew her as Alice was a friend of Bella Swan and thus he revealed to her that the prince of Lucerne William Lovie III. was the leader of the group that was being surrounded by the people of Forks, and as she looked down into the group and saw him she felt a wave of memories crash over her which caused her to pass out. Alice would wake up back in the tavern where she was being held by Rosalie, and Bella while Donnel Swann stood at the doorway, and upon waking up Rosalie and Bella both started crying as they were both afraid that Alice wasn't going to wake up, and after calming down the two it was Alice that told them that she remembered who the boy from her dreams was. Before she could tell them that she knew the boy was William she was overcome with a terrible headache as the memories overwhelmed her and while she hid the severity of the pain it was Flavius Elvorix that came to the door and ordered Rosalie to return to work and despite Alice attempting to stop this he overruled her and then demanded them leave Alice's room which again they did reluctantly. has chemistry with Jasper but can`t shake the memory of the golden haired prince she saw when she was hiding in the bell tower with Bella. As the day goes on she, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, and Edward are joined by Bella and William of which the arrival of William places Alice into a near comatose state of horrible headaches and she has to hide in the back room where she is joined by Jasper. When she eventually comes out she finds the group has been joined by several others including Hedrik Clegane, and his brother Mathew. During that night Alice says goodbye to Jasper and he goes to his own room while she returns to her room in extreme pain, and finds herself unable to sleep. Unable to sleep the entire night she goes back into the tavern where she finds Jasper once again and the two walk out into Forks and she uses all the stealth she thinks she has to finds clues about the prince, and while Jasper eventually finds out shes probing for information he isn`t jealous as Alice says she feels a familiar type relation with the prince. That night she sees William once again but this time she doesn`t suffer the same type of pain, and at the end of the night he kisses her hand, and the two look at each other but before they can say anything William is pulled away by Bella and she leaves to her room to find what she hopes is the first sleep in days. Finally falling asleep she dreams of the boy again, this time the last night she was in Lucerne is the dream she has but this time the boy turns towards her and calls her sister and she sees the face for the first time, and its William. The memories of her final conversation with her father come back to her as she remembers her father taunting her about how she was going away and there was nothing anyone could do to protect her. Immediately getting out of bed she runs to find William in his tent inside Swan Keep, and finds him running down the street towards the tavern. Stopping him the two reconcile and the beloved siblings are reunited.
Chapter Nineteen
Ezio Ederiz
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Ezio Ederiz is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter Ezio watches from the gates of Lucerne as William Lovie III. and his party leave Lucerne and watching this he is joined by Sean Lovie of whom insults his brother speaking hateful words and then hoping that William never returns. Following his conversation with Sean its Ezio that travels back to the Keep of Lucerne where he meets with James Lovie II. alongside several prominent members of the Circle of Magi. Following the meeting Ezio follows his orders and follows Sean and while Sean spends the day sleeping its at night when Sean leaves the Sky Towers accompanied by several men at arms personally loyal to him and travels outside of the Lucerne gates using the Gate of Hale they make there way outside of Lucerne into the Valley itself and watching them for nearly an hour he watches as they approach a mine where two of the men at arms remain outside while Sean and the three others go inside. Watching the mine for hours he enters a trance like state where he is only somewhat awake but this ends with the arrival of a large group of horsemen and a carriage which has several cages on it. Approaching the mine its Ezio who sees that there are girls in the cages and the horseman are knights of House Jestife and the leader of the men introduces himself as Jeremy Jestife, and beside him a women removed her hood revealing herself as Sophia Jestife his sister and the two groups spoke with Sophia detailing that they had brought Sean six girls as detailed by the last order from his father and Sean gets upset that there were not more but eventually is promised by Sophia that more will be delivered and Sean agrees which leads to the Jestife force unpacking the cages and then preparing themselves to ride again eastward. Following Ezio seeing the group led by Ellen Page he would discuss with them the full depth of the situation and upon learning about the Tower of Solice and what Ellen had seen inside the Tower of Solice Ezio would agree to help them and then join with William Lovie III. While the group was preparing to ambush the forces of House Jestife it was one of Sean's men named Tobin of Sean who came out and begin beating one of the slaves which caused Ellen Page to break from the plan and fire and arrow killing Tobin and causing the Jestife forces to barricade themselves into the front of the mine. Sean's forces would believe that the Jestife's had killed Tobin and thus refused access to the lift which eventually after the Jestife's lost two men to archer fire from the Anti-Sean forces would cause the Jestife forces to flee from the mine entrance and instigating a fight with the Anti-Sean forces. Having betrayed his order by turning against the command of James Lovie II. its Ezio that travels southward towards Forks where he plans to assist William Lovie III. and riding there he arrives in Forks as William is making his rounds with the leaders there. Ezio is captivated by the young man and becomes a believer in what William can do as King. Benjamin Bradfoot arrives in Forks, and tells Ezio about the changes in Ravenholdt since he left. The two talk and Ezio describes the days leading up to his departure of Ravenholdt, and wonders about all those from Ravenholdt that were loyal to him, and what will happen to them. Realizing that if Benjamin is correct in the changes he knows that all those with loyalty to him will be killed, and thus he asks Benjamin to return to Ravenholdt and gather as many of the loyalists as he can and get them to come to Lucerne. He gives a handwritten letter for Benjamin to show to the people so that they know he is the one to be listening too.
Chapter 20
Edward Cullen is the POV Character of Chapter 20 and during this chapter the group leaves Forks and makes their way now joined by the Clegane brothers and some of their men, and a troop of Swan forces led by Brody Swan the heir apparent of House Swan. Towards the end of the chapter they arrive at Stormwind where they are met outside of the city by Leven of whom is beyond happy to see William again although noone has the stomach to tell her about Bella, and following this meeting they go and meet with the leadership of the Starke, and Lannister forces. Both forces decide to support William and obviously this means that he has more then enough forces to do the things he wants to do in regards to saving the Valley and most specifically saving Tree Hill. During the meeting they are breifly interupted by a messenger of whom tells them that Minas Ithil to the east is near falling and the Gondorians have pulled back nearly there entire force from the western border. William talks with the forces assembled and desides to try and gain assistence from Gondor to create a better relationship and has messengers sent there telling Gondor he wishes to meet with them.
Chapter 21
Franklin Brent
Chapter Details
Franklin Brent is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he travels to Hillsbrad for a meeting there about William, and during his stay there grows close to Demi Hill, of whom also befriends his young wife Karyl Reyne of whom we see is loving towards Franklin but he remains somewhat distant. Demi Snow having been abused much of her life is easy pickings for Franklin Brent who gains her trust easily and from this is able to learn many things about Hillsbrad and the council, and among other things she reveals the Worgen problem in House Greymane as well as dealing with the violent nature of her older brother Dexter Hill.
Chapter 22
Bill Lovie is the POV Character of this chapter and he details the mistakes he has made to his Maestor of whom does not realize it but Bill Lovie at this point is accepting that he is going to die eventually to his sons ambition and his failings. He remembers vividly the moment after Alice was nearly raped by Sean Lovie and contimplates how it was his fault, and how he has spent so much time destroying Sean that he hardly recegnizes himself anymore. Bill Lovie is met by several members of the Circle of Magi of which when they arrive he feels himself fall within his own mind, and another voice begins to speak for him and this voice commands them to begin preperations for their withdrawel from Lucerne, and movement to the ruined city of Orleans. Following this meeting he feels himself come back into his mind and talks with Khadgar of whom voices his disaproval of what there doing, and tells Bill that he wishes to leave the Circle of Magi, but Bill in a moment of purity commands Khadgar to stay and watch what the others do in order for William to better understand what has happened once Bill is finally removed.
Chapter 23
William Lovie III. is the POV Character of Chapter 23 and as the POV Character and during this time he meets heavily with his shadow council and others amongst the leadership of Stormwind and comes to the complete realization of who his father is. Going to Lole briefly with Emmett McCarty and Brandon Starke alongside a large gaurd due to the fact that they had time as they were awaiting the arrival of members of House Swift and other northern Lords in Stormwind. He uses this time to meet with Bella and when they are together again during the night proposes to Bella Swan when they are laying together. Returning to Stormwind he finds a crying Janna Lannister in the hallways and when he comforts her she tries to get intimate with him, and he is forced to reject her out of love for Bella. It is following this that he follows her as she talks to her cousin Tyrek Lannister of whom she tells that she slept with Jasper Hale and that he no longer will see her which breaks her heart. Going to find Jasper he finds Jasper in as horrible condition as he left Janna and realizes in that moment that Jasper's heart may belong to Janna.
Chapter 24
Alice Lovie is the POV character of this chapter and during this chapter she greets the arrival of Emma, and Hanna Bell of whom are accompanied by a heavy contingent of men-at arms and knights of House Skane, and House Scarlet and she discovers that they remember her. Finding herself basically in a moment having gone from a tavern girl to the princess of Lucerne she remembers her times with the two sisters, and they spend the day together while at the same time she meets with Charlie Swan of whom has basically become the driving force behind the northern Lucernians joining William at Forks. While this is happening she also is flirted with by Dylan Steinmare, and when the two are alone she questions him on this and he tells her they were quite flirty before she left, and apologizes to her, but she begins to remember him and instead of accepting his apology she gently rubs his hand. While speaking on the rise of the west to Williams side due to the movement of Franklin Brent she recieves a raven from William asking her to travel to Stormwind and see the city, and she takes Emma Bell with her. In the letter they are asked to be escorted by men of House Scarlet and Martell of which it is determined should be Saiden Scarlet, and Wilheim Martell. She doesn`t realize the main reason she is recalled is the fact that William believes she will be killed if left alone in Forks after hearing so many bad things about his father. Arriving in Stormwind she is met by a detatchment that includes Lanna Lannister of whom the two have a conflict over their shared affection for Jasper, and when she introduces her baby to Alice she heavily implies the child is Jasper's while rubbing her pregnent belly and implying the same about the pregnency.
Chapter 25
Jon Snow
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Jon Snow is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter Jon Snow is woken up by his brother of whom tells him that they are going southward to meet with the Lannisters in order to see if there is any compromise that can be made in regards to the William Lovie III. issue. The issue of William has exploded following his intervention in the Knights of Aerene rebellion and following word from Charlie Swan that they are moving forward with true rebellion its Eddard Starke that agrees to join with his friend Charlie and rally eastern support for William. Joining his brother on the journey south they arrive at Lannistane where they attempt to convince the Lannisters to follow William when he arrives. During this chapter we get him beginning to discuss his mission to the northern lands. By this point in explaining the story he has reached the Wall and looks up at what is a horrifying scale. As the travel his relationship with Samwell reaches a point where Samwell finally tells him the full story of how he came to be sent to squire for Jon Snow the bastard of Stormwind.
Chapter 26
Edward Cullen joins William in meeting with Carlisle Cullen of whom describes to the group the true details of Gondor, and the House Elessar members of whom they quickly discover have lived a very tough life. The brief historical background of Gondor is given to William by Carlisle Cullen under the direction of Jacob Vorn of whom wants him to know the damage that has been done to Gondor over the years so he can better understand why they trust with such difficulty.
Following this the group (Jasper Hale, Edward Cullen, Eddard Starke, and Tyrek Lannister) follows William into the meeting with King Aragorn Elessar of whom has several of his own men in the meeting ( and while at first the meeting goes poorly as Aragorn is understandably mad about the recent Gondor-Stormwind War William is able to convinse him of his own sincenerity and desire to see the Gondor-Lucerne relationship reborn. Over the course of the conversation he watches as the prince has a positive reaction from the increasingly jaded king of whom promices to side with William if they assist Gondor in relieving the City of Minus Ithil.
Leaving the tent following the discussion he watches Jasper be met by Lanna Lannister and witnesses the two discuss there shared love for eachother, and he does not reveal to her his time with Alice. Jasper following the departure of Lanna would see Edward watching him and Edward tried to avoid a fight by walking away, but Jasper followed him out of the camp where he walked into the snow outside the walls of the camp and the two get into a fist fight which ends only when Marcel Lovie II. arrives and breaks the two up. Edward and Marcel walk together and talk about the things in Marcel's life and he is proud that even amongst everything that fell apart with William his cousin Marcel has turned out so well.
Chapter 27
Hedrik Clegane III.
Chapter Details Hedrik Clegane III. is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he returns with a large group of Lannister, Swift, and Starke men to Lucerne where he specifically join Jasper Hale and William when they speak with Jasper`s father father for what will be the last of their positive meetings. William is able to convinse his father to send many of the forces of Lucerne, but he says that the consequences of this act are his alone. As the army of Lucerne mobilizes for the Journey it is William that commands them to break up and do many things of which are of great importance, and of these tasks he wants completed he sends Hedrik Clegane southward to deal with the devolving situation in the Grand Province of Rosten. Hedrik Clegane moves his forces alongside the forces of House Swift led by Timone Swift, and his son William Swift, and leading a force of several hundred Swift men they are joined by the Dragonoph Priestess Taylor Swift as they make their way southward towards the town of Kautila where the forces of House Elric have been fighting a running battle against a bandit force which has grown out of control in the grand province. Arriving at Kautila they meet with the leadership of House James in the form of Ulrich James, and Taylor James of whom has gathered several hundred troops to join with their army as they prepare to retake control of Castle Elric. Discussing the situation with Ulrich James they learn that the situation is far larger then originally known as this is not one force they are fighting but instead they are fighting against two rebellious houses in the form of House Verilim, and House Herbus who have taken control of large swathes of the Grand Province while alongside this there has also been the rise of three large bandit forces who have also taken control of large swathes of the grand province and to the shock of Hedrik he learns that these forces are all working together in coordinated moves against House Elric's control of the grand province. Gathering together his forces Hedrik leads them against the Sisterhood of Venom first of whom have captured the town of Jogelinn and are using it as the center of their small little fiefdom. Entering the lands of the Sisterhood of Venom they meet no resistance as their army marches up the road but travelling through the village of Ojelurun they find a christian church burned to the ground and meet the first member of the Sisterhood of Venom when they find a heavily armored female priest standing in the center of the village. Meeting with the girl they discover she is Oriphiel Venom the sister of Aphasiel Venom the leader of the Sisterhood of Venom and she had come to the village to meet the army of Hedrik and bring them to Jogelinn where Aphasiel wants to meet with them in peace. Following Oriphiel its Hedrik that discusses the situation with her learning that the Sisterhood of Venom had originally been known as the Army of Aerene but had broken apart after a disagreement between the two leaders of the army in the form of Aphasiel and Mikael Therkildsen over the direction of the army. Arriving at Jogelinn their forces are met at the edge of the town by the army of Venom who is nearly two thousand strong and to avoid a fight Hedrik meets under a white flag with Aphasiel alongside Kaven Elric, and Ulrich James. Meeting with Aphasiel it becomes clear that she simply wants to protect the people of the area of Jogelinn against the increasingly lawless nature of the Grand Province of Rosten and Kaven Elric agrees that if she would swear herself and her forces to his service then he would name her the Landsgard of Jogelinn, and while she accepts she heavily implies that she will be acting as little more then a figurehead as she sees the land as a theocracy. With the forces of the Sisterhood of Venom added to their ranks they make there way towards the Pure of Aerene of whom are the group that broke away from the original Army of Aerene and have now been responsible for committing religious genocide against eastern Rosten. Arriving at the edge of the Pure of Aerene controlled lands they find the roads edge lined with crucified bodies and then marching along the road through these bodies they are met by the sight of a naked man with his eyes cut out and speaking with the man they learn he is Allectius Marinus the Landsgard of the area and he was left there to tell them to turn around and leave the forces of Mikael Therkildsen to their work. The army is forced to stop its march towards Castle Marinus after they discover that the bridge allowing them crossing to the city has been destroyed leaving the large army no real ability to cross in heavy numbers. Hedrik decides to split the army taking the Sisterhood of Venom forces and several hundred of his own men while the majority of the army is taken command by Kaven Elric and will make there way towards the Black Moon Brotherhood's lands. Swimming across the river Hedrik reaches the other side and taking command of the force they make there way towards Castle Marinus but passing through the country side they find burned out farms and dead bodies litter the land as the forces of the Pure of Aerene have devolved. Arriving at Castle Marinus they find the forces of the Pure of Aerene have marshaled outside the castle and despite attempts by Hedrik to meet under a white Flag the forces of the Pure of Aerene fire on the soldier Hedrik sends with the White Flag and this forces Hedrik to move into battle formations.
Chapter 28
Leven Martell is the Chapter 28 POV Character and during her chapter she meets with House Scarlet, and many of the vassals of House Lovie alongside William and all of them outside of House Faraday swear themselves to his cause and gather much of their forces for the campaign. With this in mind she joins William of whom travels secretly with Radlet Scarlet, and several other Scarlet men of whom align themselves with House Jackson in secret and take control of the gatehouse out of Lucerne, as all fear an ambush. At the end of the chapter with everyone planning on leaving William takes Leven with him and visits his aunt Catherine Lovie of whom she is shocked when William asks her to take him to his mother. Travelling with William she holds his hand as he enters the top of the Cloud Tower where his mother lives her life locked away due to her madness. Leven prepares to wait outside but William doesn't let go of her hand and brings her into the room while Catherine waits outside the room, and as they enter the room they find her nearly catatonic she watches William say his goodbye's but despite the emotion of the conversation she is all but gone, and does not make any movements or signs she understood what was happening.
Chapter 29
Bill Lovie is the Chapter 29 POV Character and the chapter ends with William leaving the city, but first contronting his father on his dreams. Pretending to his father that he doesn't know the identity of the girl in his dreams he tricks his father into telling him who the girl is without telling him where she is. Realizing the depths of madness his father has stooped to he makes his father clearly understand that he no longer considers him as a father.
Bill watches William leave from the Cloud Tower, and he reveals his sadness when William leaves Lucerne with much of his vassals and most of the army of Lucerne at his back. Fearing both his own fate, but mainly his sons fate he retreats into his library and allows none to enter, and during this time he talks of the War in France. Chapter 32 is where the short story The Fall of France begins from. Bill Lovie is rejoined by Ezio Ederiz of whom sneaks inside the library and watches from afar as Bill Lovie meets with members of the Circle of Magi inside the Library of which Ezio discovers has secret Magi entryways. Bill Lovie during this commands his Circle of Magi to begin preparing to leave, and they do as commanded outside of Khadgar of whom teleports away and abandons the Circle of Magi. During Chapter 29 Bill Lovie also remembers the day he finally convinsed Amber Heard to flee the city, and he hates himself for being so weak and hateful that he pushed away someone that loved his son so dearly.
Chapter 30
William Lovie III. is the POV Character of Chapter 33 and he arrives east of Stormwind in the city of Langstrand within Rhunian with the vast army of Lucerne where they are to wait for the arrival of the southern, and western forces of Lucerne who are to join them. William camps outside of the city itself but is visited by Teri-Deilvin Terrick the lord of House Terrick and thus the lord of Langstrad who is also accompanied by his son Teri-Jaeden Terrick and his daughter Seri-Relisia Terrick and as they meet with him alone with only Jasper, and Draco Highmore in the tent with them it becomes clear that they are attempting to offer Relisia to him. As the group awkwardly leaves the room its William who contemplates having sex with Relisia as she is very attractive and when she strips naked in front of him the two begin to kiss but he feels shame and forces her to stop. For several days they camp east of Stormwind until finally the arrival of the Hillsbrad forces and his friend Franklin Brent causes him to break camp and make the final movement towards . Arriving at Lamedon he is met by Eldarion Elessar the prince of Gondor of whom leads William and the now massive army of Lucerne over the crossing of Lamedon. Arriving at the other side Eldarion links with a force of Gondor east of the city and the two groups travel further east where they meet with the main Gondor force as well as the High Forest Army north of Osgiliath. Aragorn and William meet again on the eve of the Battle of Minus Ithil and Aragorn breifly tells him of how he was able to gain the Sindar Elves of High Forest. Meeting with the Sindari High Forest command group he gets along well with Taflarion Stormrage of whom is the son of the overall commander of High Forest. The chapter ends with William Lovie III. leading the forces of Lucerne into the Battle of Minas Ithil and the final pages greatly detail the battle itself.
Chapter 31
Edward Cullen is the POV Character of Chapter 34 and he stands beside William, Emmett, and Jasper as the Battle of Minus Ithil takes place. The Battle is a glorious victory for the alliance, and with very little losses a reputation begins to grow about the prince, and the fact that he is said to have killed a gigantic Orc during the Battle fighting beside Aragorn. Following the victory in this battle William spends the entire following day assisting in the burial of the losses of the battle, including himself passing off new lordships in many cases including for Varian Anthor of whom becomes quite loyal to him in return for this. Following this they move westward back towards Lucerne as the forces of High Forest, and most of the Gondor army move to prepare to assault Tree Hill
Chapter 32
Leven Martell is POV Character of Chapter 35 and during this chapter the massive army has arrived at the outskirts of Tree Hill where she discusses with Jacob Vorn IV. the planning going into the Second Battle of Tree Hill. William and Leven meet again, and she becomes increasingly jelous for a time as William on the route to Lole meets once again with Bella Swan, and she sees the two kissing, and wishes it was her being kissed. After being relieved by Emmett, and Jasper Leven wanders the camp and tries to find her sister Obella but discovers she is with Robb Starke of whom accompanied the army but is still recovering from the wounds he suffered during the Battle of Minas Ithil, and when she finally finds her sister Dorea and she tells Dorea a story about a boy and a girl of which she doesn`t reveal to her sister is about Leven and William.
Leven would be awoken in the morning by William of whom helps her get into her armor and has a barely controlled level of happiness as he talks about the victory they will most certainly have against the Orcs. Leaving the tent at his side she is able to watch as he delivers a speech to the presented commanders alongside Aragorn Elessar of whom is increasingly responsive to the prince and the bond the two have is only increasing.
Chapter 33
Franklin Brent is the POV Character of Chapter 35 and during this chapter he arrives at Forks where he meets with his wife Karyl Reyne, of whom they share a brief few nights together while the rest of the western forces make there way to Forks and then eventually southward towards Tree Hill. Karyl during this time helps him clean a wound he recieved on his shoulder, and as this happens his problems with people touching him gets lessened with her, and she and he share a brief kiss before she lays beside him on the bed leaving a space between them before they go to sleep. Eventually Liam Greymane arrives and as the western forces have now arrived they march south towards Tree Hill where the scope of the army once again amazes Franklin of whom is overcome by belief in the prince's ability to save the kingdom.
Chapter 34
Lucas Scott is the POV Character of this chapter, and the chapter begins with him depressed and contimplating dying during the next duel, when he is shaken by trumpets, and the sound of fighting. Climbing to the walls he watches alongside the rest of the remaining Tree Hill as the army of Lucerne, Gondor, and High Forest destroy the Orcish Horde. At the end of the Chapter William, and his Shadow Council and other major leaders approach the gates and the last scene is Lucas opening the drawbridge.
Chapter 35
Brooke Scott is the POV Character of Chapter 34 and during this chapter she watches from the keep as William Lovie III. enters the now liberated Tree Hill and deals with the issues that he finds there. This is the beggining of the love affair between William and Brook Scott. The chapter ends with Brooke attending the wedding of Alys Vaith and Luca Rosby alongside WIlliam, and following this she takes him to the ruins of House James's estate where the two sleep together amongst the ruins..
Chapter 36
Alice Lovie is the POV Character of Chapter 38 and during this chapter she plans the wedding of William Lovie III. and her best friend Bella Swan. She delays the departure of William in order to have the wedding before he arrives in Lucerne, and thus join House Swan and House Lovie together before he leaves for Lucerne. Despite wanting to not marry Bella anymore he is unable to disappoint his sister of whom loves Bella deeply, and he goes through with the wedding despite everything in him wanting Brooke more. Alice watches him lie during the Vow to protect and love her for the rest of his days and following this while everyone else is screaming in excitement Alice is in a fog of which is noticed by Edward Cullen of whom holds her hand and walks with her out of the ceremony as they follow William and Bella who now married are heading towards the wedding feast. Following the ceremony she walks out and sees Lanna Lannister talking with Jasper Hale of whom is gently rubbing her arm, and following this she looks for Dylan Steinmare of whom she finds and takes him away from the party and kisses him. As they become more heated she pulls away leaving him behind, and returning to the party where she takes her seat beside William of whom holds her hand as several prominent members of the Kingdom of Lucerne say nice things about the married couple.
Chapter 37
Ezio Ederiz is the POV Character of Chapter 39 and during this chapter he has returned to Lucerne where he reports to Bill Lovie that William basically knows everything and is planning to return to Lucerne and take back the throne. Bill is advised by all his loyalists to flee the city, but he decides to remain, and this leads to Ezio following Sean around and watching him attempt to close the gateway into Lucerne, but Ezio kills several men that might have assisted Sean while the men that William left behind are left in charge alongside loyalists.
Chapter 38
Alice Lovie is the POV Character of Chapter 38 and during this chapter the army of Lucerne enters the capital and finding no resistence to his arrival William will enter the Sky Towers where he and Alice confront Bill and Sean Lovie in the top flloor of the Sky Towers. In this final confrontation they are also accompanied into the final room by Franklin Brent, Jasper Hale, Edward Cullen, Emmett McCarty and Hedrik Clegane III. while despite wanting to be inside Draco Highmore was not allowed inside as William didn`t want him to see his king fallen. Following this she watches as her brother begins arrangements for his coronoation to the King of Lucerne, and as he is busy with this Alice once more catches Jasper with Lanna Lannister of whom she confronts slapping in the face leading to an arugment and eventually Rosalie Hale taking away Lanna leaving Jasper and Alice to fight it out. Jasper makes himself clear as he tells Alice he loves Lanna unconditionally but is unwilling to turn away from Alice as it would hurt William something Jasper makes clear he is unwilling to do.
Chapter 39
William Lovie III.
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Chapter 40
Hedrik Clegane III. is the POV Character of Chapter 40 and during this chapter he arrives at the Tournament of Nortburg where he accompanies William as he meets with the High Elves under Elendil Finwe of whom have come to discuss an alliance with William and Lucerne. The Elves appear very honorable about their intentions and the talks go well, with Hedrik leaving but William inviting the Elves to found a small settlement in Frosthelm. The Elves like the idea and Elendil sends his sons back to Ulthuan to make the arrangements while he will accompany William for the next while. Following this Hedrik returns to Lole where he meets with Kaila Skane of whom joins him as he is forced to deal with the first of what would become a common occurance of True Sons of Lucerne attacks after a mercenary troop of soldiers ransacked the area north of Lole under the orders of Sean Lovie in Berne. This chapter begins the Lucerne Civil War, and he recieves letters from William Lovie III. telling him that he is to prepare for what he believes is the siege of Berne.
Chapter 41
Brooke Scott is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter she returns to Tree Hill with a royal edict from William Lovie III. giving her power to begin the preperations for her grandfathers funeral. Causing quite the fight with her father over the next week she is argueing with him in the streets when Dan's hand stops from hitting her and he bows to the ground which causes Brooke to turn around and see William has returned to the city. The two make love after William repramands Dan Scott and then they lay together with William openly telling her of his regrets over marrying Bella. With her pregnancy nearing its end the two go to the funeral and she is overjoyed when William gives a rousing speech which causes massive uproar among the people for its grace and respect towards Earl Scott. Weeks pass after this and she gives birth to her son Riley, and the chapter ends with a confrontation with Dan who discovers through overhearing her the truth of the babies father.
Chapter 42
Leven Martell is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter she was staying in the Cloud Tower as the acting steward of the city while William was away in Tree Hill hosting a funeral of the late Lord Scott, and while she was there she got to know Bella better and came to really the like the shy girl even though she had William. Bella Swan now Bella Lovie by this point is heavily pregnent and only two months away from giving birth so she barely leaves the tower during the time Leven is there and it is in this situation that her two sisters arrive accompanied by a force of House Martell. With this in place the Cloud Tower comes under attack by the forces of House Jestife of whom was inspired by Sean Lovie to believe that the True Sons of Lucerne were going to instigate a massive attack across Lucerne, but instead of this it was simply House Jestife and elements of the Weeping Sisters Mercenary force. The attack while numerous is discovered after several Jestife men give up the attack in return for being pardoned and this allows Leven to plan the defence of the city.
Chapter 43
Alice Lovie is the POV Character of Chapter 44 and during this chapter she takes part in the funeral of Earl Scott along side her brother and following his rousing speech the two siblings have a confrontation on the way back from Tree Hill. The two argue over the marriage of William to Bella, the growing fact that she believes that William loves this Brooke Scott more then he loves Bella. She plans to tell William about the fact that she does not love Jasper, and Jasper does not truly love her, but he begins talking to her about how happy he is that she is with Jasper and so happy, and she doesn't want to hurt him so she keeps up the lie. Alice has grown friendly with Alais Finwe one of the leaders of the New Avelon High Elven colony and the daughter of the Atmer Empire's diplomatic mission in Elendil Finwe III., and she accompanies her to a meeting between William and Elendil where the final arrangements for the founding of New Avon are being finished. William returns quickly to Lucerne by Griffon following the news that Bella has gone into early labor and by the time she reaches Lucerne William Lovie IV. has been born and Alice is named the godmother of the child. Following this Alice travels back to Forks with William Bella, and the new heir to the throne, and while there she and William meet with the nobles of the area as well as the members of House Swan who are overjoyed. While in Forks Alice discovers that Brooke has arrived in Forks and she and William stay the night together only to be interupted by Alice who threatens Brooke to leave, and she relunctantly does this. As she leaves she is horrified when as Brooke is leaving her handmaiden Leah Oakheart enters the tent with a baby. Discovering the identity of the baby Alice is forced to accept the gravity of the situation and storms out returning to her tent to find no Jasper and this causes her to break into tears. Jasper confronts Alice during the night and tells her he has gone to William and asked for her hand, and William said he would discuss it with Alice, but Jasper begs her to say yes and promices he will never see Lanna Lannister again.
Chapter 44
Edward Cullen is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he begins the formation of the Order of the Blue Dragon alongside Khadgar of whom arrives in Lucerne and gives a massive amount of information including the full extent of Bill Lovie`s actions. Khadgar and Edward travel eastward where they take control of the Tower of Magi from the respective elements that remained behind from the Circle of Magi. Following this Edward and Khadgar accompanied by Tanya Cullen travel throughout the Kingdom of Lucerne and gather known Magi children, and adults that could join the Order of the Blue Dragon. While in Fogtown in the south he recieves a letter from William telling him of the birth of his son, and basically telling him that he hopes he returns home soon, as the plans are coming to the finish line in regards to the Battle of Berne.
Chapter 45
Jon Snow is the POV Character of Chapter 44 and during this chapter he joins his family in assisting House Anthor in founding the Port of Stormwind, and from there the province of North, West, and East Anthor is created from the provinces of Winterfell. As everyone is getting excited for the arrival of William Lovie III. as a part of the Port of Stormwind foundation celebrations they are suprised by the arrival of ravens heralding the fact that the Empire of Frey has reached the neck of Mormont and is preparing to come to the Port of Stormwind, but there ships are all carrying white flags so it is clearly a diplomatic mission. Following this Jon Snow attends a meeting with his brother Robb where several members of House Frey come to the growing Port offering Robb his choice of brides from the Frey. After a miscommunication the Freys leave horribly insulted, and the Starke`s are unable to get them to respond to their attempts at apologoy.
Chapter 46
Leven Martell is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter she leaves with William for the east alongside many prominent lords of Lucerne in order to celebrate the foundation celebrations at the Port of Stormwind. Riding side by side with William the two spend much of the early travel to Gulltown having a great time alongside their other friends with William smiling more then Leven can remember him smiling recently.
Chapter 47
Alice Lovie is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter she is woken from her bed by her aunt Catherine Lovie of whom tells her that her cousin Emma Bell has been involved in a violent altercation with a member of House Faraday which has ended with the death of one of the Faradays and the imprisonment of Freddie Highmore. Following the departure of Charles Faraday she would meet with Cersei Lannister and the two have a nice conversation before Cersei unknowingly slips that Lanna Lannister had travelled to the Port of Stormwind and realizing that Jasper is a liar about not seeing Lanna anymore she says a quick goodbye to Cersei and goes to find Dylan Steinmare. Finding him talking to Emmett she has him excuse himself and following Alice the two return to the Cloud Tower where without any real words of what she is thinking she seduces Dylan and the two sleep together. Following this the two discuss there futures and Alice all but pleads with Dylan to tell her to not marry Jasper, but despite proclaiming his love for Alice he knows he cannot divorse Laera who he loves as well, and she must marry Jasper for her brother, and although she has come to hate Jasper she knows this is the case.Chapter 48
William Lovie III. is the POV Character of Chapter 46 and he arrives back at Lucerne following the debacle that was the death of Joey Faraday and trial of Freddie Highmore, but is proud of his wife, and sister for their handling of the event but despite agreeing with thier decision he is forced to meet with Desmond, and Charles Faraday of whom ask for punishment against Freddie Highmore. Tired from his trip he tells them that the law is concrete and there is no changing the decision, and unknown to him the Faradays take this as meaning that he is saying they must get justice themselves and while disapointed they see this as an oppurtunity to get their own revenge on House Highmore. Following his conversation with Desmond, and Charles he returns to the Cloud Towers and has a long conversation with Alice, and during this conversation the two discuss Michelle Trachtenburg there cousin of whom remains in Nortburg having never left even after the tournament and the crowning of William. Discussing this William plans to send Marcel to gather her and bring her back to the capital where William and Alice agree they need to bring her into the fold since her reputation losses were made worse by their father. Following the conversation about Michelle Alice brings up Brooke causing and argument and despite wanting to and Alice pressuring him to reveal the truth of Brooke he refuses to and the two siblings say goodnight and William goes to his room with Bella where he sleeps with her. Leaving his bed with Bella he goes to Alice's room where overcome with emotions over being apart from Brook he finally reveals the entire truth to Alice that he is in love with Brooke this creates problems as she over time forces him to end things with her, as it will only lead to devastation for the Kingdom and himself. William having made his decision travells to Tree Hill under the idea that he is seeing to the construction of Tree Hill, but in actuallity he plans to go there and end things with Brooke. Travelling south he and his forces stop at Nortburg where he meets with Michelle Trachtenburg of whom is a shadow of her former self filled with depression, but William goes out breaks up with Brooke, but not before sleeping with her and unknowingly getting her pregnant again. At the same time as this is happening he begins to have a growing relationship with Nicoli Machieveli, of whom begins opening his eyes to the scope of the continent. As this happens William begins going through the reports with Nicoli of which the deterioting situation in Arnor is of great worry to him, and begins to shape his view of the world and Lucerne going forward. During this conversation Nicoli alerts him to the news that the King of Lorderon is nearing death, and William decides to send his aunt and uncle to Lorderon alongside Jacob Vorn and many nobles in order to show there support, and Nicoli says they should try and push for anextion as he has heard that Arthas is growing restless about the Boltens on his door.
Chapter 49
Ezio Ederiz is the POV Character of Chapter 47 and during this chapter he reveals much about himself, and the Order of Raven, while he travels westward to the entrance of Berne. Detailing the recent fall of the Order of the Raven he wonders back to several of the men and women he had grown to see as family in the Order of the Raven and whether or not Benjamin Bradfoot had been able to get them out of Ravenholdt before they had been killed. When he enters Berne it is revealed this was before Sean had arrived as when he meets with the Arryns they talk about how word had just reached them that William had gained victory in the Battle of Minas Ithil and was making his way west to relieve the city of Tree Hill with a large alliance force of Gondor, High Forest, and Lucerne. The chapter shifts with Sean Lovie teleporting to the city and he leaves a very ominious feeling upon his arrival. The chapter ends with Ezio detailing the dramatic fall in the city with the arrival of the mercenary force called the Stormblown of whom take control of the city through the commands of Sean Lovie and despite being outnumbered the anti-True Sons of Lucerne are demoralized by the failings of he Lord of House Arryn.
Chapter 50
Franklin Brent is the POV Character of Chapter 48 and he goes into the scope of the growth of the politics in western Lucerne, firstly through the construction of the fortifications in the west, and then he accompanies his friend Demi Snow of whom befriends several members of House Greymane and it becomes clearer to her that the Worgen are no threat to Lucerne. Demi Snow and Franklin Brent at this point agree to always work together not matter what happens anywhere elce. After the time with Demi Snow he longs to see Karyl of whom the time apart has shown him he is in love with, and he returns to Marburg, and the two share a great time together where he holds her hand as they stay together at their home.
Chapter 51
Lucas Scott is the POV Character of Chapter 49 and during this chapter he deals with the growing problems he finds in House Scott due to the royal affair between his sister and William. Lucas intervenes when the Eastern Tree Hill Wanting for a moment to escape the madness that is enveloping his life he travels alongside House Black, and others as they travel to White Knife for the marriage of Miley Black, and Wildred Manderly. While travelling he talks with Miley Black about the love he feels for Haley, Peyton, and Morrigan. The hatred of his brother Nathan, and resentment of Dan, and through all this wanting to be the one to lead House Scott`s resurgance. Lucas Scott grows closer to Morrigan of whom tells him a story about her youth that while he believes to be a fantasy is actually the truth of her early life as she reveals silently that she is Andrea Lovie one of the children of William Lovie. Arriving at the White Knife he is there for the wedding of Miley Black, and Wildred Manderly and sees genuine happiness in their eyes, and longs to find that for himself.
Chapter 52
Leven Martell is the POV Character of Chapter 52 and during this chapter she joins William as he travels southward
Chapter 53
William Lovie III. is the POV Character of Chapter 51 and during this chapter he arrives at the edge of Berne and meets with Ezio Ederiz of whom is taken captive as they do not know whether to trust him yet. Interigating Ezio Ederiz he finds the man to be trustworthy after Edward Cullen vouches for him, and following this arrangements are made. As this happens a large group of Sindar Elves from Quel'Thalas arrives at their camp, and he is able to get them to assist in the campaign against Berne in return for an alliance. When Franklin Brent, and Demi Snow arrive in the camp he leaves Franklin, and Demi to arrange with the Sindar Elves of Quel'Thalas what sort of arrangement they will need to garner more support.
Chapter 54
Alice Lovie is the POV Character of Chapter 52 and during this chapter she travels with Bella Swan to Forks where they meet with William Lovie III. of whom is travelling there to meet with the forces of House Lovie and the northern forces of Hillsbrad. Alice Lovie during this chapter William reveals to Alice by accident that Jasper went not to Highgarden but to Castamere and was planning to meet with some lords there though Alice knows he truly went to see Lanna, and after this she tells William that she is using moon tea to make sure she doesn`t get pregnant, and towards the end of the conversation while continueing to press her why she is doing this she reveals that he knows exactly why she doesn`t want to have his children. Revealing her fear that she will birth mad children like her mother or father she tells him she will never have a child. She and William discuss her upcoming marriage to Jasper and she promices that she will change her mind, but in truth she lies to William and plans to no longer sleep with Jasper and never have his children after hearing of his meeting with Lanna. Edric Nighting, Raginald Frightling, and Hanzal Grightling arrive in Forks where they meet with William in order to tell him that House Nighting and their vassals have joined with the True Sons of Lucerne and are planning on attacking House Scott in Tree Hill and then taking control of the city.
Chapter 55
Franklin Brent is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he meets with the Elves of Quel'Thalas, and while at first the talks go very well they slow to a halt after they require to wait for the arrival of Alleria Windrunner. During this wait he discusses with the Elves the situation in Quel'Thalas and he learns about the region, and how dangerously close they are to a large amount of Orcs. Forced now into the wilds of the west he dreams of Karyl Reyne and being with her intimately and promices to himself that the next time he sees her he will show her how much he loves her.
Chapter 56
Hedrik Clegane III. is the POV Character of Chapter 53 and during this chapter he travels to Forks where he mobilizes alongside House Swan and several other forces within Lucerne who are commanded to head west to Berne for the siege of Berne. It is while they are preparing to move west that news comes to them in the form of William Swift of whom arrives nearing passing out from exhaustion to tell them that the Jestife's have taken control of Brill and are raising the flag of the True Sons of Lucerne. Forced to act his father commands Mathew continue west leading a small portion of the Clegane forces, while the majority of the forces moves against Brill to take back control of the city from the Jestife's who have taken it. The chapter ends with the Clegane forces nearing Brill to find a force led from Brill waiting for them outside the city, and Hedrik joins his father in meeting with their leadership, and following a long discussion between the Clegane's and the Jestife's the Jestife forces retreat from the battle pulling themselves within the walls of Brill.
Chapter 57
Ezio Ederiz is the POV Character of Chapter 54 and he reenters Berne where he discovers the situation is increasingly deterioting and is in the Berne throne room when Allison Arryn is murdered, and this leads to the attempted murder of Amber Heard and her son with William in the form of Thomas Lovie. Ezio saves Thomas from capture but is unable to save Amber of whom is taken hostage by Sean. Ezio hides Thomas with loyalists in House Krinner, and then enters the throne room where he watches Sean with Amber.
Chapter 58
Edward Cullen is the POV Character of Chapter 55 and during this chapter the fortress of Berne is infiltrated through the tower that Ezio Ederiz has given them access too. From here they capture several of the towers, and as they battle there way through the different towers Edward has hallucinations of things happening inside the walls of Berne, including the attack on the loyalists within Berne, and also sees the betrayal by House Nighting coming.
Chapter 59
Leven Martell is the POV Character of Chapter 56 and she follows William, Jasper, Alice, and Bella into William and Bella`s tent where they are discussing his departure when Jasper begins trying to get her to be the one to go south instead of himself, and Leven is so shocked by his behavior that she freezes and Jasper is able to convinse William to send Leven southwards instead of herself. Following this Jasper excuses himself and Leven reluctantly leaves with him following him trying to get him to explain himself. Finally getting so angry she shoves him down and this causes a scene which is broken up by Peder Flom of whom leads the two to Jasper`s tent before leaving them to talk between themselves. is forced to lead the defence of the Scott estate alongside Nathan Scott. The NIghtings were lied to by Sean Lovie of whom said that many other vassals were going to turn as well, and these vassals had been feeding these lies to the Nightings under the order of the Green Dragon as they wanted the Nightings to make the mistake and attack while they were horribly outnumbered. Fighting off House Nighting she takes part in their execution under the order of Dan Scott, of which she notes that Dan Scott takes far too much enjoyment from. Following this she returns to the Scott Estate and she and Brooke engage in a long conversation about things, as the two love struck girls bond over their shared love of William.
Chapter 60
Lucas Scott is the POV Character of Chapter 57 and during this chapter he meets with Domeric Bolten following the wedding of Miley Black, and Winfred Manderly and comes to like the prince that they both know one day will be forced to fight against eachother. Following this he recieves a letter from William telling him to return to Lucerne and make his way to Highgarden so he travels to Highgarden east of Tree Hill and meets with both his uncle Keith, and members of House Tyrell who have been commanded to assemble awaiting the arrival of Catherine Lovie, her husband, and their two daughters. During this chapter the Tyrells are given an expansive increase in power, and become no longer the vassals of House Scott. Lucas Scott meets with Emma Bell and her fiance Freddie Highmore of whom discuss with him the happenings throughout Lucerne and when Freddie leaves Emma tells Lucas about the death of Joey Faraday and the now violent conflict between the Faradays and the Highmores. During this chapter the depth of the background of the Targaryans is increased, and the Tyrells are shown to be dramatically hateful towards Dan Scott but show a strong interest in helping Lucas.
Chapter 61
Jon Snow is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he joins several in his family heading northward where they visit several towns north of Winterfell eventually reaching Hearthglen where they meet with the Scarlets including Saiden Scarlet of whom is meeting with several influencial nobles of Fairmarket.
Chapter 62
Brooke Scott is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter words reaches Tree Hill of the Civil War in Mander, and realizing that with the fighting in the south taking the Tyrells out of being able to reinforce Mander Leven comes to believe very strongly that the Scotts need to send forces and she makes Brooke take her to the Keep of Tree Hill to meet with the lords of Tree Hill. The chapter ends with Brooke Scott, and Level Martell leaving ahead of the main force of House Scott with only a force of some fifty men believing that the flag of House Lovie that Leven flies will allow them to move without difficulty on the way to Mander.
Chapter 63
Hedrik Clegane III. is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he works alongside his father to surround the city of Brill, but are not completely able to do this until the arrival of reinforcements from the Trachtenburg's to the west, and several other loyalists of the region.
Chapter 64
Jon Snow is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter
Chapter 65
Lucas Scott is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he
Chapter 66
Ezio Ederiz is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he
Chapter 67
Hedrik Clegane III. is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he
Chapter 68
Brooke Scott is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter she and Leven arrive in Mander where they find the situataion is far worse then they were told with the lands just south of Mander seemingly on fire as the battles have torn the land apart.
Chapter 69
Leven Martell is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter she
Chapter 70
Jon Snow is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he
Chapter 71
Lucas Scott is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he
Chapter 72
Franklin Brent is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter he remains with the Elves of Quel'Thalas. The chapter ends with Franklin returning to Berne at the head of the army of Quel'Thalas of whom are heavily behind Lucerne now.
Chapter 73
Brooke Scott is the POV Character of this chapter and during this chapter she arrives at Castle Crester where the final stage of the Bronheim Civil War are being fought, and at the edge of the House Tyrell army camp she is met by Clayton Scott of whom has just recently arrived at the scene and details to them what has recently happened.
Chapter 74
William Lovie III. is the POV Character of Chapter 58 and this is the final chapter of the story with the finality of the Battle of Berne ending the conflict in the lands of Lucerne, but killing many within Berne.
