Prince Melthiner the White Lion

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i wrote this quickly as just a bit of background for my prince, the first real bit of background i wrote for an army so let me know what you think

Prince Melthiner the White Lion

Prince Melthiner is one of the lesser known nobles from Chrace, through choice that is he chose to keep himself to his self raising through the ranks of the white lions with ease and earning the trust and friendship of captain Korhil himself, often called on as Korhil’s chief advisor Melthiner would give his strategic advice which Korhil would always follow to a successful victory, on one occasion though Melthiner drew up plans for an ambush on a dark elf force moving through Ulthuan, which to Melthiner’s dismay went terribly wrong he dispatched a force of white lions and some shadow warriors (that followed Melthiner’s forces to learn from him) he put one of his commanders in charge of the attack, a promising but inexperienced elf who sore this as his big break to impress Melthiner.

The high elf forces lay in wait for the dark elves passing through a heavily wooded glade, the commanding elf filled with adrenalin and inexperience gave the order to attack at that moment the white lions charged the marching dark elves from all angles the shadow warriors who commonly used ambush tactics immediately realised the commanders mistake he had attacked too soon, although knowing this wouldn’t go well the shadow warriors joined the attack, the battle went from bad to worse when a pack of harpies descended on the high elves, the battle didn’t last very long and soon the high elves were defeated a few of the shadow warriors were able to escape but not before putting some of their wounded brother out of their misery as they knew what the dark elves would have done if they captured them alive.

The small group of shadow warriors returned to Melthiner with the news Melthiner blamed himself believing he should have been the one that lead the charge or even if he put the commanding shadow warrior in charge things would have been different, the shadow warriors tried to console Melthiner telling him they did not blame him for the loss of their brothers it was a mistake even an experienced general could have made, Melthiner could not accept this and passed command of his forces to his brother his second in command, Melthiner’s brother dispatched the remaining shadow warriors who still believed Melthiner to be a great tactician, to follow him out of sight and make sure he didn’t get into any situation he could not handle, when Melthiner left he wondered Ulthuan for years contemplating his mistakes until he found himself at peace back in the mountains of Chrace.

Somehow he managed to make peace with the great white lions in the mountains, its believed they could sense Melthiner’s pain and through this felt a connection to him, they allowed him move among them as if he were one of their own, one day when returning to his favourite pride of lions he found a small dark elf raiding party had destroyed his beloved friends, in a blind fury Melthiner charged towards the war band and started decimating the dark elves, but there were only so many this great warrior could take by himself and it would of surely been his demise if not for the intervention of the faithful shadow warriors that had shadowed him since the start of his self-imposed exile.

This incident reinstated Melthiner’s will to fight and decided to return to his people to lead them once again and avenge his fallen comrades and the lions he loved, Melthiner thanked the shadow warriors and asked that they stay with him as his personal scouts and bodyguard he also asked that they wear the skins of his lion friends to preserve their memory and strike fear into their enemy. As Melthiner was skinning the lions he found a lion cub alive lying at his mother’s side Melthiner took the cub and raised it as it father and trained it to feel only hatred towards the dark elves he named the lion Aslan.
Melthiner returned to his family and took command of his forces once more he vowed that he would defend Chrace and its inhabitants at all cost, his main focus now is keeping the Dark elves out of Chrace and will only campaign out of Chrace if Korhil or the Phoenix king call on him personaly.

[Elessehta of Yvresse]

A good start, keep it up.