The Taking of the Tome and the Journey Thereafter

One of the greatest teachings of Tomys the Preacher was that he suggested all those in power should be learned in the art of pleasing the peasantry or those below them. So when suddenly soldiers and lords from around the South decided to abuse power many feared the wrath of the gods. However, others denied there were any gods at all and chose to force those they could under their thumb. So many were forced to work, and many accepted the fate, as they were paid even if lightly. The lords could not justify the mistreatment of their own people, not to their courts. 

It must be noted that Casamir was also a pious and religious man, as said before. However, the Voice was not one of great kindness. The Voice has always said to "let others live the way they might." When men who worshipped the Voice were the ones being taken and enslaved, Casamir knew better than to ever speak of the Voice. 

Casamir did not have to look very far or think very hard to know who the targets of soldiers were and so it must be understood that all accounts of what follows are limited. The young man was forced to throw his books into the many streams except for those that were empty, those he pretended to be a scholar with.

Some relatively undeterminable time in the future a young man(presumably our young king) was said to be seen leaving the city on horseback with fifty men riding behind. The soldiers are known to have said they chased him for fifty days, one for each man, and yet they never caught him. His days in the wilderness were undocumented for the time, however, a religious scholar within Thames said a decade later, that the young king couldn't have been in the forest for long. As the great forest near Thames was cut down for timber to allow the newest industry to boom. 

We know that Casamir found new books to write in about half a year after he'd thrown them away. For in the year 1 LE he wrote, "I have never given thought to the ideas of Southeresse, however, I must admit the boy priest Tomys was long beyond his years." 

Casamir was greatly shaken after reading the book and decided it would be good to return it when he could. For then, he would keep it and read it over, for he believed it would yield different results each time he read it. He continued on his way for many days and after a few fortnights he arrived in the same port town he'd originally come to. He managed to get himself a ferry off the island, he wrote that he'd dabbled in poetry and sold his works to a small lord, for a fair price. The lord was grateful and requested he return at some point to write more, for "In our time, the words of a story are greater than ever." 

His horse surprisingly stayed with him even through however many days the young king had been in the wilderness. It is at this point that the beast began to be written with a name, Conquistra. A name with many associations in the cultural lexicon and one he said, "Fit the beast better than its skin." 

Casamir boarded his ferry and within a fortnight was gone from the kingdom of Remous. He kept to himself while on his ferry and tended to Conquistra. He repeatedly tended to the beast, grooming it and keeping it company. Records from the ferry suggest that the other riders found him weird, for he "slept on the back of a beast as if he was one." 

There was no worry for Casamir though, he was the one asleep most of the time. He kept himself clean despite sleeping upon Conquistra. It was a good thing to do, especially for a beast that at its shoulder was a good height of 6 and 2 pes. 

Casamir's ferry took him up and around a large part of Remous and slowly descended into the kingdom of Yonora…