Editing House Accolon (section)

===A clash of Heirs===
Artur took to wife Gwenythh, the daughter of Syal of Ghent, Queen Regent one of the most powerful of the remaining Knight Households that had refused to bow, the Knights of Nidhoggr. Bringing them into the fold was well worth the marriage, but the two parties ended up growing fond of one another and their marriage was unusually happy for one of political convenience. Four years after their marriage in 879 M30, she gave birth to the long-awaited heir. But instead of the expected son, it was a daughter, who was named Arturia after her father.

At her nativity, Artur decided to not publicly announce Arturia's birth or gender, fearing his subjects would never accept a woman as a legitimate ruler. He decided that as she was his child she would also be his heir, regardless of her sex. In one of the hardest decisions of his life Artur came to the realization that his daughter had to grow up away from him to keep her safe from his many enemies. So her death was faked and she was sent to live with the most loyal of Artur’s Knights, the young, brave and strong Dux Uktar, the son of one of his great enemies and a child of the foreign Seaxe people from the western ocean who Artur had defeated early in his campaigns. Uktar, a noble and dutiful man if still wedded to the culture of his people became her foster father. Uktar raised her as his own alongside his two sons, Kai and Shrike. He taught her to ride and fight and shoot and hunt, had her educated on chivalry and academics, and had a suit of armour forged for her to wear. He did not treat her as a woman, but as a warrior and a knight. Great hopes were placed upon her, and as she grew she looked to become a King as wise and great as her father, one who would be able to finish his task and bring unity to all Cattegirn.

All these hopes were dashed when Myra’s spies found out about Arturia, and sensing her time had come she publicly unveiled Medrat and brought him to Artur’s Capital, the Knight Holdfast of Rockerid. Shocked, he tried his best upon meeting his Bastard son, but would not budge on the issue of succession. His hidden daughter would rule after him, not some bastard son.
Many of his knights were confused and shocked, for Artur had no children after the death of his previous child over a decade before. Here was one who could take up his cause and lead the Knights of Accolon to their final victory, and the King was refusing him?
Furious, and spurred on by his mother, Medrat had Artur poisoned and took his throne, claiming as his father’s only son he was the only heir. Many of Artur’s knights now rallied to the new king and swore to stand with him for the final war to reclaim Cattegirn.
Uktar, upon hearing the news was tortured. He had grown to love Arturia as a true father, and did not want any harm to come to her. However he did not want the foul Medrat to rule, And after a year of Medrat’s tyrannical rule, when the foes of House Accolon won several victories and the dream of unity was growing ever more dim reluctantly he revealed all to Arturia, and asked her to take up her father’s banner and stop her bastard brother’s reign.

Arturia, despite being young, and unprepared, was courageous, determined and had a strong sense of justice and duty, and to prove that she was her father’s daughter went alone to search for a Knight of her own, seeking one of the ancient Holdfasts as her father had done before his own rise to power. What she found was the mythical Iron Hall buried in the Rockspine Mountains, the first Knight Holdfast established on the planet in the ancient times and long since forgotten and thought of as a Valhalla-like place to the Knights of Cattegirn. Alone she rode in and came out with Caliburn, a mighty Knight mount of power beyond that of any other that obeyed her despite her lack of implants. This proved that she was machine-touched, and truly the heir to Artur Eld. Raising her father’s banner above the Iron Hall, she led the last of her father’s loyal knights to face those who had sided with Medrat. For two years she fought many battles against both Medraut and her father’s old enemies, always at the forefront, always taking the burdens upon herself, with her brothers at her side. Many Knights who disliked Medrat sided with her, including the great knights Gawyne and Bedieve, two of her father’s foremost servants.

She met up with and slew Medrat in a great battle near Lake Camaln, and when his followers laid down their arms turned on the league of enemy Knight Households, defeating them one by one over the course of two years until all of Cattegirn answered to her. Her father’s dream had been made real and the Knight World was one.