Poem: An Elusive Lover - A FoE Love Story
You may remember a tale of a day gone by,
where a young maiden joined a quest of nation-building,
but fell out of love with collecting taxes from her holding
and instead, fell for her calling to chase after a guy.
She searched far and wide, visiting the empires of friends and neighbours,
only to be met with the harsh words which mocked her labours,
"The Prince is in another castle!"
Clearly, this was going to be quite the hassle.
She followed the clues, and learned his location through his only niece.
However she would need a map, piecing parts bit by bit,
which would leave her astray, as she needed one final piece.
She resisted every temptation to pay the girl with diamonds, to end this awful test of wit.
'Till finally, one day. She found her promised love.
Thus, she could finally end this hunt and turn the page,
As her lover sat proudly on his throne, inspiring their troops from above.
And since then, he's been with her from age to age.
And they lived happily ever after, Raevynherst and her lover (who is pictured below):