Two Truths and a Lie meme

[singhelpers]

Two Truths + One Lie


— post a toplevel for your character containing two truths and one lie
— respond icly to other toplevels to try to figure out which one's fake
— everybody wins!

Comments

[meadqueen]

Styrbjorn Jarl is a coward.

[It pains her to say, she’d deeply respected her father-in-law once. In many ways, he had taught her to be a leader.]

He decided he was tired of war after he had already won, and abdicated to another king.

[clothed]

[ ...oh. ]

Might be that he had done his people a service, if he knew he was unfit to rule in peacetime. But... his successor, was he known to be fair or just?

[ such is the trouble with heirs: they have minds of their own. ]

[meadqueen]

Harald Fairhair is known to be an overly ambitious opportunist. He wishes to unite all of the small kingdoms of Norway under his own banner.

Styrbjorn Jarl sold his fealty in exchange for the destruction of the Wolf clan, who had some years ago slaughtered our vassal Bear Clan nearly to a man during a festival. I shed no tears for the Wolves, but his own son's inheritance was too high a price to pay.

[clothed]

[ sansa's similarly unimpressed. ]

He means to be a conqueror. For others to bend the knee to him. An ambition like that is rarely bloodless, and it's always the smallfolk that pays the greater price.

Why not challenge his throne regardless? Would it be too dangerous?

[meadqueen]

Harald controls a large army - many have either sworn to him or left Norway already - and I do not think my husband’s war chief would have had the heart to take on the man who helped us to eliminate the Wolves. Before her adoption, she was one of the only surviving Bears.

They say that because of the unrest in England, anyone can be a king there, so we opted to begin a new independent branch of the Raven Clan there.