The sun of the 1st of Highsun in the year 2311 of the Third Age shines down through my bedroom window, casting a ray of sunlight onto my face. I groan and blink at the sun. ”My first order of business is going to be ordering the servants to put up some curtains”, I thought as I crawl out of the bed.
I look around the room a bit confused. This was my first night in the royal bedroom and I'm not quiet accustomed to waking up in it. It’s quiet a step up from my old bedroom and the bed is so large that I almost felt lonely sleeping in it by myself.
This is my first day as a ruler in the Kingdom of Albion, an island kingdom near the coast of western Midgard. My parents had died 12 years before, leaving me as child of 3 years of age to rule, and I can't even remember them. Of course, I didn't really rule. My Lord Treasurer, Lord Herbert Turner was my regent and raised me as his own.
Now, however, I am 15 years of age and ready to take the throne. Well, to be exact, I took the throne yesterday, after I pulled Excalibur from the stone and was then crowned.
I will have a big task and many challenges ahead though.
My father was an only child and most of the Royal Family have dwindled into obscurity. I am the only legitimate member of my Dynasty left. Should something terrible befall me, the entire kingdom will surely fall into civil war to fill the power vacuum left in my wake. I don't doubt that there are some who would like that more than my rule.
With that morbid thought, I sigh and wipe my eyes before standing out of bed. I walk over to the wardrobe and open it and eye myself in the mirror.
(Will you continue as King Arthur XV Pendragon? Or do you want to make your own dynasty with (male and female) a King, a Duke, an Earl or a Thegn?)
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