A new story told by John Ryan has been published on the Guild Wars 2 official website. Good reading ! 
By the third night, the crowd surrounding Thorn Castle was so huge that its fires had reached the river, forming a constellation of pyres that stretched out as far as the eye could see.
"Yet I could have sworn that my sandwich trees would have been enough to end this famine," King Oswald Thorn grumbled. "It's good about the hunger they're complaining about, isn't it?" "
Dribbin, the king's counselor with parchment features, felt his throat suddenly dry up. The king did not hesitate to have the bearers of bad news beheaded.
“Your attempt to feed your people by planting meat, cheese and bread was not lacking in courage, Your Majesty, but it is another issue that preoccupies them today. There was another… uh… incident… involving your… son. "
"What? But how did he manage to escape? "
“The guards cannot tell us, Your Highness. It seems that he tore their tongue out with his teeth before reducing the village of Pelcalice to ashes. Six hundred souls… It is the fifth village to suffer this terrible fate in a few months. "
Oswald's face turned white. He might be the terrifying "Mad King of Kryta" but the news made his blood run cold.
“Rumors speak of a woman… The Pelcalice tragedy has stirred up the anger of the plebs. The people fear that you have lost your mind… ”
The Mad King raised an eyebrow at Dribbin.
"By that I mean, Your Magnificence, that the people fear that your royal habits, which could not be more reasonable, have given way to the most barbarous carnage." "
"Where's my son?" "
“In the throne room, Your Highness. "
"What an arrogant white-faced," Oswald sighed. I'll take care of it ... And try to find out why my sandwich trees didn't give anything! "
Dribbin leans forward.
Oswald stormed into the majestic throne room and his voice echoed through the huge gilded room. "If you're looking for a woman's affection, Eddie, you have to take her father hostage, not slaughter his village!" Have you not learned anything from my lessons? "
Prince Edrick Thorn was slumped on the throne. He was a young man of barely twenty, lanky in appearance, disheveled hair, eyes and lips made up of black. Like all well-off his age, his face could only express two feelings: contempt and complacency.
"You know, though, that I can't stand your calling me Eddie." My name is Edrick, he said arrogantly, Edrick the Blood Prince. "
" Pity ! This nickname is as ridiculous as the previous one, when you wanted to be called "Lord of Pain". Besides, you are not yet king, as far as I know! So get off there! "
“I have to get used to the attributes of power if I am to succeed you one day. Edrick sat up on the throne, giving his father a smirk. "And then, who can know when his reign will end?" "
"Why did you go after Pelcalice?" You would have liked to enrage the people, that you would not have gone about it otherwise! You only kill to play bad tricks on others, my boy. "
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