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 Post subject: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:54 pm 
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Xabier had finally obtained a moment of respite after the last days. Enjoying the rare moment of solitude, he reflected on the words his mother had passed on to him. His eyes observed absentmindedly as the flames danced and cast shapeless shadows on the waxy sea stone.

'Xantellados' the word echoed in his mind, its meaning unknown to the pirate. He sipped from his glass hoping to find some inspiration in contents of his glass but instead finding a rising anger at his inability to unravel the meaning. "It's our family, our place, and our sin. The heart of our journey halved. Seek answers there." he repeated in the odd chance a voice would raise from the shadows bearing the answer but instead met by mocking silence.

His eyes rose to his families banner, the two black dogs flanking the cauldron. The arms of his exalted ancestor, the first of the sorgin, a woman whose name was only whispered in the Hizkuntza Zaharra (Old Tongue) and whose tales spoke how she, after her husband and children had been killed, struck a deal with the Vengeful Sea. What she obtained from the deity was not clear but the fact he was here meant than at the very least she had obtained a new husband. The thought of his deity as a nakodo did cause him to momentarily smirk as he pictured someone like Utsutsemi as a divine avatar.

Yet his momentary laughter was quickly overwhelmed by his impotence at unraveling the enigma. He cursed and threw the glass away, turning towards the dying embers. "I should throw more kin-" he said to himself as it struck him. The heart. The hearth. Could it be? Could it be why his brother had sold everything? He rushed towards the hearth and smothered the remaining flames with his feet, diving hands first as he ran his hands across the surface of the hearth in search of something.



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:05 pm 
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And even as his hands suffered burns and blistered, in an uncompromising effort he found where tiles where without mortar.



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:16 pm 
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The anticipation obfuscated the pain from his blistering hands as he displaced the tiles to reveal what laid behind.



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:22 pm 
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A heavy ceramic box with a sigil of his house was being hidden underneath the tiles. The pain in hurt hands was becoming hard to dismiss.



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His hands shook with a mix of anticipation and pain. He stumbled towards his cabinet, dropping a few bottles as he fumbled for aguardiente. He poured it on his hands and covered them in cloth, clinching his teeth hard as the pain jolted through his body.

He moved back to the box, his clothes wet with sweat. He caressed the box as he searched for a way to open it, opening it once found.



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
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The lock was concave, in a shape he knew, but from where? It felt like it was something just within reach...



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:49 pm 
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The Tortoise stood baffled at the lock, unsure of what could open it. Then it dawned him. He moved one of his hands, flinching slightly, towards his neck retrieving a small locket he always carried with him. The locket was of a pair of two, his twin's and his, and they had been a gift before sailing off Aberri. A ward against all evil. He took the locket and placed it against the lock, hoping it would hold the secret to opening it.



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
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The lock clicked, and lid was easy to lift. Inside, there were papers: notes, deeds, bills of ownership, and a few gems - a small treasure it itself - and, last but not least, a tome bound in goatskin.



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His momentary disappointed was quickly overshadowed by unbridled enthusiasm as he found the goatskin tome. He reached for it, his hands shaking in anticipation. Surely whatever this was, it was important enough to have made his brother to move in the way he did.



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
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The paginas yellowed from the heat of the fireplace but their content was still readable. Inside the goatskin there were records of his family affairs reaching back almost two hundred years, to the times when his great-grandmother Izaro ruled the clan. The record was extremely detailed and events meticulously chronicled. There was a lot to read.



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
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He skimmed through the pages, trying to perceive where the betrayal might exist. He hoped to make sense of his mothers words.



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
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The records of the Succession War with the Thrane described the emergence of the clandestine alliance between two maritime domains of Merenae: Aberri and La Corna. While it were the Cornejos who had stockyards, workshops, technology and wherewithal to produce ocean-going vessels armed with modern weaponry first developed by Espada Cornejo, those were mostly put to good use by Abertzales. The infamous Sacking of Morriston that gave the kingdom a favourable exit from a war that seemed unwinnable was the highlight of this cooperation.

The journal describes how entente continued into the next century in the maritime domain, with Lekeitio serving as the entrepot for goods pillaged from Sheel ships on the Spice Route, then rerouted to legitimate markets via La Corteza. The origins of wealth of the Cornejo lay there, build on piracy spearheaded and masterminded by Aljundro Cornejo, who had an Abertzale mother. His son Teodoro spent a part of his childhood in the north and when he came of age there he formed one of his first crews who in 430s was subverting Sheel rule over Anisrana and ports of J'li'lu.


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That was becoming a long read for Zabieru. The hands hurt.



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
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He had heard of the Cornejo and Aberri friendship, but had always assumed it to be through his family rather than the land itself. Every page he turned made his hands jolt with pain so to remedy that he reached for the aguardiente and took a heavy sip.

He moved forward towards the time of the Culling of the Cornejo.



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...skipping a lot...

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"...he and his son were held on a remote island in an undisclosed location known only to the sorgin, as an insurance. In time, insurance turned into a nuisance. In 466 the sorgin released them from imprisonment and they were let to live as fishermen or shepherds, hiding in the mountains from royal raids. But in 471 they fled to La Corteza with aims unknown, where they survived for a year. Whatever was their intention, it did not bear fruit. Only the young Xantello escaped persecution, boarding the ship to the Isla de la Tortuga, and was never heard of again."



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
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So Xantellos was a child of the Cornejo? But that still didn't explain why his brother had sailed away. He tried to search for more clues as to why his brother would abandon the island so abruptly.



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
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"...for revealing the plans of the Xantellados and abandoning the conspiracy, the delphine promised Don Patxi Arrigorriagakoa..."


...Zabieru's grandfather...

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"...thirty thousand reales and a fifth of assets of Empresa Mercantil de La Familia Hidalgo de Cornejo in the country and overseas, as well as the promulgation of the edict on religious tolerance on enthronement and the position of the Royal Admiral held by Don Teodoro for Don Patxi. Sorgin did not believe in the promises and punished her son for naivete and stupidity in trusting the delphine. Once the purge of the conspirators started she ordered to kidnap Don Teodoro and his son before the Admiral could rejoin the levies of La Corna awaiting them at the village of Mercesquera..."



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:24 pm 
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The name of his 'grandfather' made him smirk. The man had been a buffoon that had condemned his family to hatred from every side. He did not know much of the Troubles but he knew enough to know that his grandfather was only spared an untimely death in the aftermath because of who he was. The rest of the royalists? They found their redemption in the halls of the Goddes, that is the only path for those that would betray their country.

Thinking of the royalists made him remember the tales the Old Crone shared. How they had hoped to have their faith be respected by the Kingdom or how they hoped to be granted higher status in the Merenese Navy as was just given the high proportion of abertzale that compose it. Instead, we got the Inquisition closely scrutinizing our faith in order to implement 'tolerance' and the positions we got were ceremonial at best. He clenched his fist, drawing blood. The royalists had managed to put abertzale as nothing better than scum, reviled by everyone as double-crossing savage zealots.

He sighed and continued to read the book. He needed to know what else his brother had found.



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 11:32 pm 
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A few pages earlier.

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"...stories were spread in the capital that it was an Abertzale who had assaulted and detracted the carriage of queen Beatrice and infanta Sofia on their way to their family in La Cuenca for the betrothal. The delphine Enrique was quick to dismiss them as falsehood, claiming that the death of his stepfamily at Paraxena was an unfortunate bridge accident. As Quijanos and Cornejos were mourning and the outrage spread, Don Patxi travelled to Carceiras soon after to thank the Crown Prince for not giving in to hostile sentiments in other provinces of the realm in the wake of the death. But the Sorgin knew it were the delphine's assassins who weakened the beams at Paraxena as Enrique sought to forever end the danger of a Cornejo, and of a foreign blood at that, marrying into the Royal House."



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
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Rage flared as he read his family's history. His grandfather had been a bigger fool than he imagined; a weak-willed wretch that had failed to inherit the Old Crone's foresight and drive. The Cornejos had been brothers to the Arrigorriagakoa, the closest any non-abertzale has ever reached and still, the imbecile had opted to trust the Delphine. He should have brought fire and blood to those weaklings, imprint himself as fearsome as they had in the Thranish cultural heritage.

He placed the book on the chest, closing it as the pain began to slowly creep up on him. What would his brother do? He had never known where his allegiances had laid. He eyed the coffer and slowly the pain was substituted with a feeling of dread. His medallion had opened the lock. Only his sister and he had a medallion.

"Amaia..."



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 Post subject: Re: Enigma Inc. [D7 EE]
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The pain was too much too focus, and the anxiety didn't contribute to focus. They would be no more reading tonight.

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