"There is honour in death, those foolish Sel say," King Goron bellowed as he walked among his warriors. "I say, serve your neid! Fight in service till shaky breath is drawn through your wrinkled lips, and your eyes pierce the air only an arm's length in front of you; till your bones creak, and the flesh sag off it; till your mighty battle cry becomes no more than a hoarse whisper; till your arms can neither support the weight of your blade, nor nock an arrow! Our worthy sacrifice to our neid is our way of life, our pride... our honour!" He stared Gulo in the eye. The boy had become a man, a warrior. Goron let his eyes roam the faces of as many as he could. He knew them well -all four hundred and ninety seven of them- including Gulo, his younger …show more content…
King Goron's band. His band. He smiled again.
Denca watched him turn after giving his iria. She had hoped to catch his eye this day. Alas, Galoros had not flamed upon that particular eventuality. She did however catch Gulo’s eye, as usual. They grew up together. Back then in the citadel, they would run in the fields amidst the trees, beneath Galoros’ warm golden gaze. That was a different time, a different life. A time before Goron became king.
Two years ago, scouts reported an army marching east along the coast of the great river, Kuridis, two days’ worth of travel from the Citadel by beast. They raised the Sel flag and numbered around twenty thousand: roughly three thousand vorgen riders, and
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The insignia at the top of the map was not just the symbol of Galora – the image of the mighty bragge. The three-eared, red-maned, light-brown-furred wildcat, was underscored by the Gourama-shida symbol. The symbol indicating the secret of the prime family, passed down only from prime leader to prime leader. Just as Gared’s father had done with Gared, King Gared the previous prime leader –and Goron’s father– had taken Goron as a fifteen-year old boy to the coast of Kuridis and said to him, “Here lies the Broken Slate, first of five secrets. It is said that if ever all five secrets should be revealed to one person, he shall transcend reality and in so doing, obtain divinity at the expense of the rest of