Shazir Heart of the Flame was playing with his two boys at their mothers bedside.
Aether and
Charon were both smiling while
Priestess Nyx, their mother looked on.
Shazir was watching her with all his attention. They
both knew their were not many more days like this. The boys were too young to know.
I need to make a way so you will never be forgotten my sweet and fragile Oracle. For our two nations and our two sons. Even after I am gone too.
She looked up and smiled at him. A single happy tear rolled from her eye. Shazir wiped it from her young and alabaster pale cheek. Raising it to his own lips as he shed one of his own.
Five years of life with her was never going to feel like enough.
I will make a Games to show the strength and Life We two brought to two tribes, like we brought to these two boys. A show of all we have proudly done together. A Celebration of Strength and Partnership.
Along with a small reward for the champions I will also award a statue of you, in rose marble and bronze.
I will make them myself with artisans from both our tribes.
Lifting both boys up to hug their mother Shazir turned to rest his head on her shoulder and began writing Invitations in a clay tablet. This would be copied and sent across land and sea.
QUOTE:
To all who know and Honor the Oracle of Nyx,
I send you Greetings from the united Nations of Cappadocia and Cillicia!
A Games will be held to honor the Unity of our warriors and friends. I will mark it to the date of the middle festival of the year! (16 June 295BC=15Mar2010) Also this is to honor the woman who has blessed her nation and myslef with new life. The Oracle Priestess Nyx of Cappadocia.
We choose these warm days for their beauty and tranquility. A time she will have to watch and enjoy from the Next world. She wants to see a happy show but has envisioned her own death here beside me in less than 3 cycles of the moon (IGM).
For the victor of a Grand Battle of all willing to join it shall go a small icon of her and 30 silver.
For the victor of a series of 1 on 1 duels is also to be given 30 silver and an icon of her.
Please honor Our people and Her and Our two sons. Come to feast and compete with us in Killikia,
the Cillician capital.
For the small entry fee of 5 silver you may leave home with 6 times your donation.
The silver is to help us start in building a memorial of Strength and Partnership in Her name. A Mausoleum mirroring the great beauty and eternal glory of she who willingly served for all.
Come Celebrate and Compete with Honor. All who can arrive may enter.
Archon of Cillicia,
Husband of Priestess Nyx,
Father of Aether and Charon by Priestess Nyx,
~Shazir Heart of the Flame
While she and the boys slept Shazir watched them engraving the sight on his memory.
Eventually he sent for the librarians to copy and send out this decree. It was destined to all the world he knew. By the fastest ships and riders possible.
He watched alone all night as his family slept, promising them this
would be worthy to keep her memory.