~NO AI ART AND NO BOTS ASKING ME ABOUT ILLUSTRATIONS OR COMIC BOOK ART IM NOT INTERESTED, THE CHARACTERS ARE BASED ON THE BBC SHOW MERLIN WHICH IS ABOUT THE LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR I AM MERELY WRITING THIS FOR FUN I WILL FIND ART MYSELF OR MAKE IT MYS...
The year is 1495 AD a young boy named Merlin is living in a village called Ealdor; which resides in Cenred's kingdom, not that he was a brilliant ruler nor did he really care about the people within his kingdom, he would never get into the affairs of the villages that surround his kingdom, that is where Cenred and Uther differed Uther would send aid to his villages wherever possible to help strengthen his kingdom where as Cenred would rather see them suffer, the only thing the Kings agreed on is that they would never enter each other's kingdoms or meddle with their affairs as they did not want to start a war that neither side would win.
Merlin is six years old, life was happy life was content, his mother Hunith cared for him a great deal but she had a secret she held dear to her heart it was only too long before he discovered what he could do but til then she would not tell. She watched her son playing with Elyssa, also six years old bar a few months between herself and Merlin, Elyssa is the neighbour Eilonwyn's daughter, when Hunith saw it for her own eyes Merlin made a rose appear in his hand without muttering an incantation, that was when the bottom of her stomach dropped like a stone had been placed there, she knew she would have to tell him the truth she didn't know how a boy so young and so innocent would take the news but it was a risk she was willing to take.
A few short months after Hunith finally plucked up the courage and told Merlin her biggest secret that she held dear; Merlin now knew he was special and that this was a secret he had to guard with his life what he didn't know that the secret he must guard so well would come with a great destiny in years to come; as three years before Merlin was born Prince Arthur Pendragon was born to King Uthur Pendragon and Queen Ygraine Pendragon by the use of magic done by the High Priestess Nimueh, the price to be paid was a life for a life so Ygraine died so Arthur could live. This event made Uthur decide to outlaw magic in all of Camelot and those caught using it are sentenced to death by either execution or being burnt at the stake, there was a great purge that was undertaken by Uther ridding majority of magic folk in the kingdom, few escaped with their lives and one remained in the castle as a court physician his name was Gauis, he swore to no longer use magic so the king let him live.
Merlin is tending to the crops with his mother, sowing the new seeds, watering them and placing manure on them while Elyssa and her mother are harvesting the ones already grown and ripe for picking placing them into bags ready to distribute around the village when the sound of hoofbeats can be heard in the distance; which wasn't unusual to hear coming from the surroundings of the village as most people travel by horse, however on this particular day the hoofbeats were coming closer to the village. Almost all of the crops were bagged up as three horses ride into the village, one of the men in his early thirties, dressed as a bandit, six foot two, climbs off the horse and demands in a booming voice "Give half your crops to me or be pillaged!" Hunith steps forward to speak for the village she states calmly "We cannot give half the crops we'd starve and winter is drawing near, we won't survive" The man known as Kanen grabs her by the face and exclaims "Half the crops or we take the lot understand" Kanen pushes Hunith back and waves for his other two men to start taking bags smashing things in the process, Hunith steps back and puts her arms around Merlin while Eilonwyn keeps Elyssa by her side while Kanen also grabs bags of crops, just then Elyssa slips through her mother's hands and runs over grabbing a bag trying to grab it back off Kanen, Kanen looks at the little girl and without remorse backhands Elyssa across the face causing her to let go of the bag and fall, Eilonwyn runs over picks up Elyssa and retreats Kanen gets back on his horse and demands "After winter I will be back by the end of the first spring and I want half your crops again, fail to do so and I'll take what you have!" Kanen rides off with his other two men with their loot, Elyssa cries into Eilonwyn's shoulder her cheek sore, Merlin wanted to use his magic but knew it wouldn't bode well for himself or any of the villagers so he decides against it, besides he was not as versatile in magic yet, one day that will all change.
Merlin and the rest of the villagers watch as Kanen rides out of the village, things did look grim for Ealdor and the villagers as well as their future, one of the male villagers went to ask for aid Cenred refused, sending the male back tied to a horse with a note attached to his back via an arrow thankfully the arrow hadn't pierced any vital organs, Hunith took the note off it read: Villagers of Ealdor I will not send aid to your town on account of three bandits, you are foolish to ask such a thing of your king, do not ask again Cenred Hunith reads the note shaking her head disappointed but also was not surprised about Cenred's response. However she knows there would be no way for her or any of them to get word to Camelot, so in truth they would have to suffer until such a time that it could be resolved.
Elyssa's cheek was less red now as she lay on her straw bed, Merlin sat beside her as night was drawing near and the women were bringing in what was left of the crops distributing it to the houses that needed it the most while the men were rebuilding what was wrecked from the onslaught, the man who had the arrow in his back was now being tended to by the village elder, thankfully his wounds were not too severe so he survived the night. Winter is fast approaching and Ealdor's villagers knew the winter was going to be a harsh one and there was nothing that could be done about it they just have to survive with what little they have left.
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This is the prologue to the Merlin book that I am rewriting, I state again I do not need art of any kind i.e AI, comic book illustrations or other I will find my own or make my own. I hope you all will enjoy this as much as I enjoy writing it, thank you to those who do read it.
