Tale of the Twelve, Part I: Sir Boromir's Tale

By Robert Cely

A good King send his son to bring peace to a troubled land. The Prince gathers to his court twelve of the bravest and most virtuous knights around. After a year of travel and adventure, the knights return to their Prince, and one by one recount their tales. Written in the style of medieval story collections like Canterbury Tales and The Decameron, and inspired by knightly romances of magic and adventure, The Tale of the Twelve unfolds a quest of warriors riding out alone, but fighting as one, as they struggle against the awful dread and array of the forces of evil.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bard and Book
• Release date: Jan 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466190504

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Tale of the Twelve, Part 1 - Sir Boromir's Tale

By Robert Cely

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Tale of the Twelve

Sir Boromir's Tale

Tale of the Twelve

There was once a good king who ruled over a vast and mighty kingdom. Though his reign was just, there was one province that was always quarrelsome and rebellious. Rebellion would breed robbery, and robbery, brigandage. Chaos would erupt across this unlucky place. Barbarians from strange lands flooded over the borders and burned the poor farmer's fields. Bandits looted towns and laid siege to castles. Dark and fierce creatures crept out of the forest to prey on the sons of man. Sorcerers and witches, bred of foul magic and dark deeds rose up to terrorize the land. In all the happy kingdom this one province bred despair.

The king would send a champion to this place, and order would be restored for a while. Then the people would fall to their grumbling again and good government dissolved into bitter anarchy. The champion would be killed or chased away. When the people grew tired of war and death, the king would send another champion, only to see him chased off or killed like the others. Soon it became too much for any one champion to control and the land was left to fester in lawlessness.

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