Re: The Beast of Veroigne
In reply to Archivist Renault (msg # 557):
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Generally speaking, I was not able to find much more about this type of undead, except that they hold a dread of wild roses, and must stop and count the thorns if rhey are cast in their path, and they have an active dislike of garlic.
On the other hand, I know a good bit more about the master of the tower where you faced these things; I found a disposition of his arms from forty years ago, at the beginning of the plague.
He was a knight called Monsieur Gerard Nonpareil, for there was no match to him with a blade.. He was also called Gerard of the two trees, for his shield, which was divided with a white field above a black one, and a black tree on the white gield, with a mirrored white tree below it on the black field. His lady Margeaux was accused if witchcraft and he slew the magistrate, decapitating him. for this, The twice former Baron, the grandfather of the baroness and good baronet James, was to send a company of his men to see justice done, but alas, he was stricken with plague. Monsieur Gerard closed himself in the tower and was presumed dead of the plague. After that, I have no records here, but there might be some in Sonne, for he was from there, and like most of his people, a Triunist. Those folk do keep records, but not in a language I can read. "