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The blazing affair

A tale about sir Beryl the incompitant. Wether or not this story is true is up to interpitation, yet it is wildley believed to be accurate in the suburbs of Ranculo and outside it.    "Sir Beryl the incompitant, before his service under both queens, was a prince of hell and is the child of Machiavelli himself. On their 100th birthdays, each of his archdevil children is allowed to go to the mortal realm and expierence life as a human for one day. Beryl, the youngest child, has heard stories of his older siblings about the beauty and flickering nature of human life up close. So Beryl chose to go in disguise to try and live among them.    So the fated arrived, and Beryl turned into a human similair to how he appeares today- a stout short man with a colored beard. He arrived on the day of the winter festival and he met a woman- a beautiful halfling woman. He was too shy to talk to her, so he chose to enlist in the local dance competetion. There they were the last two standing, and they danced together for hours- the woman was a famous dancer. They were both declared as winners, and the two kept on talking. Her name was Marrisa Cinder   Beryl explained that he had to leave before dawn (although he didn't explain why), but that he would come back to find her. She told him she was always on tour, never in one place for two long, so she couldn't stay either, but he should look for her when he returns. She wanted him to join her on her travels, but she promised she will wait for him until he finds her.   Re-invigorated by her promise, Beryl returned to hell to ask for his father to become a mortal so he could be with Marissa. Machiaveli warned him that unlike the devils, they are not always loyal to their word and cannot be trusted. Beryl insisted regardless, and was turned human and sent back to the mortal realm. He spent months traveling, often being just a week late to her latest destination, until finally- he found Marissa.    But all was not well. Marissa found a dance partner, and after a slight conversation with her, it turned out he was also a life partner- her husband. She renounced her feelings for him, saying it was a night of passion and nothing more. Beryl, miserable beyond belief, tried to take his own life in despair- yet his father would not let this lesson be over quickly. After trying to kill himself Machiaveli turned him into a tiefling- a person with a devil like visage- and prevented him from returning home, or from dying.    And thus he lived on, for hundreds of years- even after Marissa and her husband perished- their children are still alive and well today, some of the finest dancers in Soderhalm."   The story treats sir Beryl like an actual devil, and thus tries to predict his next course of action- to "teach" Marissa's descendants that actions have consequences. It also eplains his famous hatred of dance, yet it mostly a resurgence of an old story as probaganda against the disgraced knight.

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