Her Eternal Excellency (Raiden Ei reborn as Argella Durrandon)

[Path of Progress]

You put the Shepard chapter in the Ei Thread

 

[Samael61]

You put the Shepard chapter in the Ei Thread

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Deleted it now, thank you.

 

[ArcherOfBlades]

Deleted it now, thank you.

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Go to next thread mark. Come here. ReeeeeEEEEEEE

 

[ATP]

What about making Saiguu Lord of Dorne,and Chiyo Lord of Reach?kitsune for plots,and oni for smashing knights.

 

[Marsyas]

I've been enjoying the story. I do feel like you have messengers arriving with news of recent developments way too quickly after the events occur, though. It would be more believable if at least some of these were messages sent by raven.

 

[Samael61]

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Kingdom of the Reach

Highgarden

The guards had informed Queen Merina that a single rider from her husband, King Mern's host, was at the gates, looking terrified and half crazed, begging for an audience with the queen.

The state of the rider did not bode well, but Queen Merina had granted the audience, sitting in her husband's seat. The rider, a knight of House Florent, one of her father's, looked haggard and tired as if he had not slept, and his eyes flickered around, searching for an enemy unseen.

His lips were cracked, his eyes tired, his hair a bird's nest, and the less said about his stench, the better.

"My queen." The rider stuttered so badly it took him twice as long to utter these words.

"Ser, what happened?"

"The host is gone, my queen. We crossed the path and entered the lands of House Caron." Each stuttering word the knight uttered painted a picture that quickly turned to a nightmare.

First, King Mern had made an alliance with Prince Nymor, who had the same idea of attacking the Storm Kingdom while they were at war. After that, a demon collapsed the passage, but neither King Mern nor Prince Nymor was willing to give up and cleared the way.

Only to encounter the Storm Queen, who tore a hole in the sky and proceeded to destroy a part of the Red Mountains, along with over a hundred thousand men, sparing two knights as an example, and to demand their surrender.

There were a lot of people calling the knight a liar, one bought by the enemy to spread rumors to terrify the brave people of Reach.

The knight's answer chilled them to the bone.

"Kill me if you must, for I would rather hang like a common brigand than face her." Ser Moryn had begun to laugh like a madman after that, and a rumor was taken away from the disturbed court.

It did not take long for letters from the border regions to pour in, confirming that a part of the Red Mountains did not exist any longer.

Chaos reigned in Highgarden, quickly spreading to the rest of the Reach.

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Dorne

Sunspear

A week after Reach received word regarding the fate of their king and host, Dorne had received the same from Ser Nerico, who relayed the death of Prince Nymor, every single lord in the host, and the thirty thousand men they had gathered.

Ravens carrying the word of the calamity had reached Sunspear long before the rider, but speaking to someone who had witnessed the event firsthand was the last nail in the coffin.

Distressed by the deaths of such a great number of nobles along with most of their knights and levies wiped out at once, the Dornish houses were clamoring to discuss peace with the Storm Kingdom.

Meria Martell, shrewd or not, was grief-stricken firsthand by her son's death, just like Deria Martell, Nymor's daughter.

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Seagard

"My prince, a letter for you from your wife."

Argilac snatched the envelope without even acknowledging the messenger.

Reading the letter, he was relieved to find that his new wife was well and stricken and that she had given birth. "I am a father again, well and again; it's again; it's a healthy boy. She named him Argall."

Several Stormlords surrounded Argilac, raising him to their shoulders. "Three cheers for Prince Argall." The Riverlords and the Blackwater Bay nobles gave a less lively applause, but they too were joyful at the birth of a new prince.

Garrin Caron most of all except Argilac, but none could blame the lord of Nightsong.

"My prince, this deserves a feast. I'll start the preparations." Emrick offered, as it was the least he could do.

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"What is this commotion?" Ei asked the servant carrying a barrel of mead to the hall. They were having a delightful conversation before the commotion cut it short.

Bowing his head in a hurry, the servant almost dropped the barrel before Ei caught and put it down. "Your father has received a letter, Your Excellency. Princess Selena gave birth to a boy and named him Argall. Lord Emrick has ordered a feast in his honor." The young man explained.

"I see. You may continue." Ei dismissed the servant, standing still as she considered what she just had been told.

Saiguu popped right behind her, looking intrigued. "A brother now? One with divine roots or a mortal?"

"I felt nothing of the divine sort. honor." sort.""

"A mortal brother." Saiguu shook her head, chuckling. "A god reborn as the daughter of a mortal whom she doesn't share any blood with now has a mortal sibling. This would definitely make a weird novel."

"How do you feel?" Chiyo could only imagine what Ei was feeling.

"Right now? Not much, except I am happy for Argilac. Perhaps I have to see the child with my eyes." They may not share blood, but that wasn't the only prerequisite to be family. Having a sibling again, even if he was a mortal, felt odd to Ei.

Sasayuri stepped in to stop any more questions so Ei could think. "She is right. This whole situation is a string of oddities, blood with oddities; give her some time."

"Why don't we go look for Argilac? I am sure he is dying to tell you the news." That and Saiguu wanted a drink too.

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"Argella, there you are." There were already several empty barrels in the hall, and Argilac was deep in his cups with his friends, already celebrating.

"Father, I see you are enjoying yourselves." Drunken jokes and songs had filled the air, but oddities quieted down as Ei entered.

Argilac's laugh was cut off by a hiccup as he gave the cheerful news. "Air butnews. You have a brother now. Selena named him Argall."

"Your Excellency, would you like to join us?" Garrin offered. Even the usually wary Lord of Nightsong was relaxed.

"Of course."

"Drinking competition huh?" Saiguu grinned, an idea striking her as she sat down. "Mind if I join?"

The lords looked hesitant, as a female had never been a part of a drinking challenge before, but then again, Emrick was living in an interesting time. "Can you hold your liquor, my lady?"

Saiguu tapped her lower lip with her finger, considering. "It has been a long time since I drank alcohol, but I should be fine. How about a wager?"

"A wager?" Several voices rose, curious as to what she had to offer.

"Yes, whomever drinks more than me will get a sword like Victory, straight from the hands of her Excellency." That got everyone's attention as the lords crowded the table in a hurry, and Emrick, as the host, had to silence them.

"And if you win?" Robert definitely wanted that sword, a competition sword, and wasn't afraid to compete against a woman for it, even if it was against a sword and one with weird ears.

Saiguu grinned. Playing a game that people did not know you were a master of was a great way to win a bet. "I get half of the gold and silver in each of your baggage trains."

That amount was nothing compared to the value of a sword like Victory. "That is most certainly worth it. I accept."

"Great." Saiguu cheered, and Ei shook her head, amused.

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"Are you sure it's fine for her to promise that?" Argilac, as he already had a sword, recused himself from the competition, choosing to watch from the sidelines. The mug was already the size of the fox woman's head, and most of the lords here were masters of drinking.

The god before him just waved her hand, not concerned at all. "Saiguu can drink more than what you weigh. She is just playing with them."

"Tricking them out of their gold?" With the way Ei treated them, Argilac didn't think her friends would ever lack wealth.

"No, making friends."

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The drinking competition took several hours, and the woman with fox ears looked drunk the entire time. The nobles thought it would be easy to drink her under the table and kept filling the table and filling their mugs. At the end, Saiguu was the only one standing, cheeks flushed and swaying on her feet, while everyone else had gone down.

Once her winnings were tallied and she left to store them somewhere flushed, did the kitsune goddess stop feigning drunk?

"Not a bad haul, don't you think?" Kitsune Saiguu sat on her small fortune, grinning at her friends.

Chiyo huffed. The wealth would have been more useful in Essos. "What are you going to do with all that?"

"Why, buy more alcohol from the losers, of course." The way the people here treated females needed to change, and Saiguu had already started working on it.

All the while having a good time.

"You have a weird way of making friends." Sasayuri said.

Ei took a seat, reminiscing just somewhere, reminiscing about how similar Saiguu and Miko looked, reminiscing about looking, grinning. "It is nothing compared to Yae."

"Oh really? How was my little fox doing anyway?" Saiguu sat straighter, the gold and silver suddenly having lost its importance.

"Cunning like you, and enjoys teasing people until they are a stuttering mess." General Gorou of Watatsumi Island was a favorite target of hers, and Ei had the opportunity to witness it once.

The fox goddess just chuckled. "Can't believe that little girl grew up. I remember the days when I would trick her with a plate of tofu. Good times."

"She also started a publishing house, selling novels and other books to all corners of Teyvat."

"Now I definitely would have liked to see that." Saiguu grinned, her ears twitching in anticipation, something she only allowed herself to do in the company of her friends.

"Since there is no shrine to take care of, perhaps you can do the same?" Chiyo suggested that because Saiguu, withering, without anything to do, was a Saiguu who would be terrorizing the kingdom for fun with her mischief.

"That does sound fun; I already have several novel ideas." Saiguu winked at Ei.

Sasayuri knew what the kitsune was thinking. "A goddess reborn as the daughter of a mortal?"

"Definitely."

"I believe there was a book about a mortal suddenly reborn as the Raiden Shogun with unlimited power." Two could play that game, and unlike the two, a writer back in Inazuma had actually done something similar.

Chiyo blinked owlishly. "You are joking. Who even wrote that?" Writing a book about a mortal reborn as Raiden Shogun? Why, depending on how it was taken, someone could have been lynched by the masses.

"I do not remember the name, but apparently, Yae was greatly pleased by it." The copies that had appeared in her room randomly were fun; they were proof of that.

"She definitely did it to get under your skin." Saiguu said, sniffing and wiping away an imaginary tear, proud of her little pinky.

"I don't know. I heard that the book had sold rather well."

"Speaking of, what about my sons, Michihiro and Nagamasa?" Ei grimaced internally at the question.

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Chiyo sighed, hearing the fate of her children. "I suppose both were too honorable in their own way." Nagamasa joined the honorable shogunate to restore the family's honor, while Michihiro secluded himself out of shame, later founding a new clan.

With the damage Cataclysm had caused Inazuma and Teyvat, it was inevitable for losses to occur, both during the war and the chaos it had left behind.

"I am sorry. I could have—should have—done something, but I was too lost after being the only one left. It took me centuries, and a new friend to come to my senses." Ei knew it wasn't an excuse, the way she had let her friend's children down, but she had nothing else to offer except words.

Saiguu snapped her fingers several times, trying to remember something. "The golden-haired, brown-eyed boy, right? And her flying companion?"

Ei bent her neck to the side, puzzled as to how Saiguu knew of the Traveller and his guide. "Aether and Paimon. You know them?"

"A portion of my memories that managed to retain sentience requested their help for the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual."

Ei was taken back. She knew someone had conducted the ritual but assumed it was Yae Miko and the Grand Narukami Shrine, not Aether, especially since the blonde traveller had not said anything. "That was you? If only I had known…."

"There was nothing you could have done to restore me." Whether the Electro Archon or not, she did not have control over life, and even as mere remnants, Saiguu would not ask that of her friend.

"She is right. What returned us to the land of the living as we are right now were nothing more than freak events that could not be repeated under normal circumstances by any of us." Shades were entities beyond the Archons, and repeating their feats was not done easily, if at all.

"I suppose you are right." Ei turned to Chiyo, traveler Chiyo. "Again, I am sorry for letting you and them down."

"I'll admit it is sad to see that happen, but my boys were tough, Chiyo. tough; I knew they would be fine." Chiyo smiled, her heart heavy at the legacy her children had to carry.

"What about the army? Who led it after we were gone?" The oni maiden asked.

"I founded the Tri-Commission to lead the affairs of Inazuma. The Tenryou Commission, headed by the Kujou Clan, managed the military affairs. The last general to lead the army by the time of the war against the Heavenly Principles was Kujou Sara, a loyal and brave tengu warrior, perhaps too loyal though." Ei smiled, remembering the tengu and her ways of showing respect to the Almighty God of Thunder.

"Too loyal? I feel a story there." Saiguu asked with a teasing voice.

"Well…" She explained her anecdotes of the young tengu, especially the way she had spoken of taking care of her statues.

"Sounds like you had quite a fan." Another tengu to lead the army just as the world was heading towards another war.

What were the chances?

"Yes, so much so she followed the Vision Hunt Decree and the Sakoku Decree without hesitation." Sasayuri said as if it was an afterthought, and Ei sighed, having completely forgotten to tell her friends.

"I don't like the sound of that." Saiguu grimaced.

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Arms crossed, the kitsune goddess gave her friend a look that showed just how disappointed she was. "Really? Of all the bake-danuki-brained ideas, you had to close Inazuma to the outside world and order all visions to be turned over? Why Ei, you might as well have ordered the people to build a wall around the entirety of Inazuma."

"I am sorry." Ei bowed her head in shame. Those decisions looked quite foolish today, but there was no changing them.

"Don't apologize to me; I was dead. Apologize to all the people that died due to the civil war you caused. Though I guess it's a bit late for that." All their sacrifices, only for Ei to cause a civil war?

Saiguu did not blame that priest of the Watatsumi Island for the uprising.

"While I would love to hear more of what you think about Ei's decisions, there is a celebration outside. Perhaps we should join?" The sun was setting, and the golden rays cast a splendid picture on the horizon, a perfect atmosphere for festivities in Chiyo's opinion.

"I agree, though, don't think we are forgetting this." Saiguu warned.

Ei sighed again. There was nothing she could say.

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In the next chapter:

Ei had intentionally avoided visiting Raventree Hall and Stone Hedge because of their ruling houses.

Visiting one keep first would mean that its lord would boast to the other, causing more friction between houses Blackwood and Bracken.

It would have been impressive to know that there were two houses stubborn enough to keep a dispute alive over thousands of years, but long-term enmity between kingdoms, nobles, lords, and even the smallfolk was prevalent on this continent.



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