Song of Lorelei (Haven Cove Book 2)

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Official art ofthe drow stranger, by Kendra Wellsfrom " Liam's One-Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (OSx23). [art 1] Official art of an undead Geneviève, by Kendra Wells from " Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36). [art 5] In this legend, there was a beautiful maiden who lived in the city of Bacarach. Every man who saw her was dazzled by her beauty, and immediately fell madly in love with her. Alas, she had already given her heart to a young knight who went away to war, so she turned away all other advances. The despondent failed suitors threw themselves into the Rhine to drown.

Lucius was the second eldest child in the Lorelei family after his sister Aurra, two years his senior. [7] He had vague memories of his mother, Rosalind, but for him it was his great-aunt Katerine Lorelei who raised and nurtured him alongside his father, Lord Haldur Lorelei (who had also been raised by Katerine), teaching him how to read and write.

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See " Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 0:15:20. Liam implies that the twins had underwent the Taming and were already adults. See " Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 3:26:44. According to Erica, Aurra has three different wolf shapes (possibily including werewolf form) I have the impression that these are stories of old white men who took great pleasure in the suffering of an imaginary female figure and then published it, so that they could make money," she said. When they inspected the other rooms they discovered their great aunt Katerine dead, with signs of having been killed while fighting. [10] Lucius proposed to bury her, and Aurra suggested doing it in the woods. [11] Although Benicio protested, they ended up agreeing that the two elder siblings would take care of Katerine's body, and then rejoin the rest. The three younger siblings discovered that the intruders had been living in their rooms, even leaving some weapons in Portia's room, leading them to suspect the intruders were still there.

Portia: These were innocents. These were our people. We were suppose to protect them. This is an act of war. On the fourth day of longing, a string pinged free from Lorelei's Lyre. She grabbed her basket, woven from the small branches of saplings, and made her way along the cobblestone streets to the market. Passing by a shadowed doorway, she saw the butcher’s bonny daughter embracing a man wrapped in her husband's cloak." The Lorelei siblings, now more recovered, enter the crypt, proceeding cautiously in the darkness (dimmed by Lucius' Light cantrip), while looking for possible traps. When they get to the section with the altars, they notice that their grandmother's, Geneviève, is clutter on the ground, her statue broken in three pieces, and there is a hole now. They pause for a moment to discuss the circumstances under which their grandmother was buried, but Lawrence grows impatient and goes into the tunnel, prompting his siblings to follow. Along the way Aurra informs them that she hears someone breathing up ahead, and Portia changes into her werewolf form anticipating danger. Lucius re-inspects the elven dagger with Lawrence, and remembers that the inscription, "Silent Message", is reminiscent of the names of histories from Xhorhas, the country to the East of the Empire. Benicio gets impatient and asks them to continue, saying that he wants to kill whoever is waiting for them later so he can celebrate later, and Aurra criticizes him, saying that they have lost Katerine and that her father has been mutilated, there is no reason to party. Official art of the drow stranger, by Kendra Wells from " Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36). [art 4] The Lorelei is actually a German myth. Most of the information comes from Romantic poet Clemens Brentano in his ballad Lore Lay . The tale is a continuation of one of his novels so naturally, the tale is embellished to fit the narrative, but it does reveal a lot about the nature of the nymph.See " Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 0:50:22. Liam explains that much of the time Aurra spent in the woods, she wasn't living in her human form. Benicio and Lawrence's birth tragically caused the death of their mother, Rosalind. They were raised by their father, Lord Haldur Lorelei, and they only knew their great-aunt Katerine as a mother figure. Benicio had an itch for danger from an early age and was impatient to undergo the Taming, enter his adult life and flex his power. [6] Both of these stories begin to reveal threads of the truth behind the Lorelei. Men interpret her as menacing as distracting, when she is merely existing in the channels of water. Her forces may churn the waters below, but she does not intend to bring harm. The Lorelei is not a mischievous sprite as the late 20th century would have her appear; she is the embodiment of the swishing energy of the Rhine. People began to whisper about her power over men. Rumors that she was a sorceress who lured men in, and cast them off to drown drew the attention of the Archbishop of Cologne. In the court at Rhens, she was charged with sorcery. The punishment would be burning. So deep was her longing for her knight, that she no longer care if she lived or died, and did nothing to defend herself. Lucius is two years younger than Aurra, and Erica Luttrell stated that her character was around 23 in human years, but she had lived at least three more years as a wolf in the woods, making her at least 26 years old.