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Third Wife of Lejan Jewel

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Jewel's third wife, the delicate windling lass, is notoriously mysterious simply because there are only two written accounts known to be about (or from) her. We still don't even know her name. There is such an insignificant amount of information about her there is common historical speculation that either:

  1. The information was deliberately purged from the recordings.
  2. She died young and not much was chronicled.

 

Most of our information is from Hart Thamin, a wandering human Troubador (Hart, young & inexperienced at the time he met the Windling lass, becomes one of the great historians of his age). Hart met the young windling while she was journeying to her wedding at Jewel's Palace in the Great White City of Travar. He mentions that the "lovely windling lass was uncommonly brave, intelligent, sassy and a bit out of place in a world so cruel". Hart further mentions, briefly, the mysterious six warrior women that accompanied her.

 

Hart writes of the warrior women:

 

"Deadly, sexy and by the Passion's Loins did I wish to stay at their side longer than I was able! If I wasn't so terrified that half of them, specifically the Invae Hunter, would just assume kill me as say hello, I may have done just that. They were clearly an overly protective bunch and felt I posed some threat to the windling lass. I only wanted a story to write and a roll in the hay from the warrior women but alas, the wandering road called and I had to away. I think at least a few of them, perhaps the Dragon Lady, were involved in the wedding duel but I never saw any of them again so I'm only speculating."

 

Hart claims that the windling lass told him the following story of her first account of magic - a sorcerer duel in the woods near her village. She was clearly horrified and amazed. Her naivete is quite charming.

 

Hart writes, "Though she was a teen windling, she recalls a memory from her youth with clarity and a distinct, crisp vocabulary" and records her story:

 

"Neither saw me but I could see their magic flaring with windling sight. I was nine years old and it was the first time sorcery had been visited upon me. For all the stories of magic and wild wizards, of sorcerous conflagrations engulfing cities during war, I had never before witnessed such forces. It was never as common as the tales purported it to be. And the witnessing of magic leaves scars, a feeling of overwhelming vulnerability in the face of something beyond one's control. It made the world suddenly fey, deadly, frightening and bleak".

 

...only other bit of information regarding the windling is from Reginald Barclay of Travar - 62 TH c. - 112 TH c. , a chronicler of Lejan Jewel. Barclay transcribes an undated conversation between Jewel and an unidentified foreign ambassador. The tone of the conversation is jovial until the following exchange:

 

Ambassador: Jewel! I've heard they called you Jewel! Your first two wives. And not because of your name!

 

Jewel: And my third wife? What did she call me?

 

Ambassador: Well...I haven't heard much. It's just that, it was hard to hear and I thought she too called you Jewel but perhaps I was mistaken. It was close to Jewel I think. It was close to the word.

 

Jewel: Which word close to Jewel?

 

Ambassador: I um, can't seem to recall.

 

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