Eternal
You must have spent a lot of your down time searching through Casimir’s libraries and personal items in an attempt to possibly find some sort of magic or treasure or secret that could increase your own power, but you haven’t had much luck in that regard. Most of Casimir’s power came from his own magic strength along with his mind and had little reason to have such trinkets lying around.
Surprisingly most of his notes and journals are of the more mundane sort. You don’t find the discovery of some powerful spell he didn’t teach you or anything. Again, such things would’ve probably been locked up in his own mind, which of course is inaccessible now.
Still, one thing that you found stands out and it’s something that completely surprised you.
Dearest Tilda,
In all my years, I have never met a woman that makes me feel the way you do and I’ve met many in my travels. Never did I think that I would find paradise in the arms of a gnome woman.
It’s like you’ve known me all my life, I don’t need to explain myself to you. You just know and understand. If I didn’t know better I’d swear you were some sort of trickster demon. Of course I know that cannot be the case, because you have such a kind and gentle spirit despite also being grounded in realism.
I am not ashamed to tell you that I love you. I never thought I could experience such a wonderful emotion. I know your people are not magical by nature, but I cannot help think that you must’ve cast a powerful spell over me!
I vow from here on out, that you will always be major factor in my future goals. I want to share everything with you.
You find several, no a multitude of these sorts of love letters. Apparently Casimir once loved a gnome woman by the name of Tilda. Many of these letters were obviously sent and read, but you wonder how he got them back.
After scanning through a few more of them, you find one letter that answers more questions to this mystery. It’s not Casimir’s writing, its Tilda’s.
Casimir,
When you find this letter, it will be on my dead body and hopefully most of my people will have escaped your bloody purge. You are a man of unspeakable evil, I always knew this, but within these last few months you proved it tenfold when you committed genocide on our Halfling cousins.
Why? They wanted nothing more than equality, yet you would rather kill them all rather than grant that tiny bit of dignity. There will be a day of reckoning for all your evil, mark my words and when that day comes, I shall be watching and laughing at your downfall in the afterlife.
You claimed that you loved me with all your heart, but you proved time and time again that you have no heart. You did not truly love me. You wished to possess me as a favored toy. Someone to pat you on the head whenever you whined about how the people just “don’t understand” why you have to do the terrible things you do. You’re pathetic, and I curse the day your eyes set their sights on me.
Do you know how much I rolled my eyes at your sorry attempts of writing me love letters?
Do you know how it made my skin crawl every time I had to lay with you?
Do you know how much I utterly hated you from the moment you enslaved my people? Yes, ENSLAVED. No matter how “favored” our position we were still SLAVES. And you made me your personal one.
I go to my grave happily knowing that I did everything I could to distract you from realizing the truth of our exodus before you could act in time. Know how a simple gnome woman fooled the mighty Emperor.
And if by some bizarre twist that you actually did have genuine feelings of love for me in that black heart of yours, then my revenge is even sweeter. Live with a broken heart, and may it hurt as much as all the pain you’ve ever inflicted onto others.
You will also find all the worthless letters you wrote to me. Take them back, and keep them as a reminder of your utter failure.
Tilda Zookwinkle: Proud gnome woman
Wow. This letter isn’t even addressed to you and you can feel the viciousness dripping from it. Good enough to rival the cruel ruthlessness of a svelk you think. It’s very apparent now why Casimir hated gnomes so much. You always knew it had to be more than what he told you.
She obviously was still having an effect on him for centuries as he kept his grudge and the letters rather than destroying them. Makes you think back to when he was trying to tell you that he knew about love and loss and how he was trying to guide you away from such things.
Of course you know the main reason was due to his own agenda, but now upon reading these letters, you can’t help but think a small portion was truthful and him speaking from this experience.
Casimir certainly kept his promise in one of his letters though; he did say Tilda would always be a major factor in his future goals. While Tilda may have gotten a little revenge, she didn’t exactly do her people any favors given what happened.
You wonder if she knew what lengths Casimir would ultimately go to utterly destroy her people, would she have done it anyway?
Surprisingly most of his notes and journals are of the more mundane sort. You don’t find the discovery of some powerful spell he didn’t teach you or anything. Again, such things would’ve probably been locked up in his own mind, which of course is inaccessible now.
Still, one thing that you found stands out and it’s something that completely surprised you.
Dearest Tilda,
In all my years, I have never met a woman that makes me feel the way you do and I’ve met many in my travels. Never did I think that I would find paradise in the arms of a gnome woman.
It’s like you’ve known me all my life, I don’t need to explain myself to you. You just know and understand. If I didn’t know better I’d swear you were some sort of trickster demon. Of course I know that cannot be the case, because you have such a kind and gentle spirit despite also being grounded in realism.
I am not ashamed to tell you that I love you. I never thought I could experience such a wonderful emotion. I know your people are not magical by nature, but I cannot help think that you must’ve cast a powerful spell over me!
I vow from here on out, that you will always be major factor in my future goals. I want to share everything with you.
You find several, no a multitude of these sorts of love letters. Apparently Casimir once loved a gnome woman by the name of Tilda. Many of these letters were obviously sent and read, but you wonder how he got them back.
After scanning through a few more of them, you find one letter that answers more questions to this mystery. It’s not Casimir’s writing, its Tilda’s.
Casimir,
When you find this letter, it will be on my dead body and hopefully most of my people will have escaped your bloody purge. You are a man of unspeakable evil, I always knew this, but within these last few months you proved it tenfold when you committed genocide on our Halfling cousins.
Why? They wanted nothing more than equality, yet you would rather kill them all rather than grant that tiny bit of dignity. There will be a day of reckoning for all your evil, mark my words and when that day comes, I shall be watching and laughing at your downfall in the afterlife.
You claimed that you loved me with all your heart, but you proved time and time again that you have no heart. You did not truly love me. You wished to possess me as a favored toy. Someone to pat you on the head whenever you whined about how the people just “don’t understand” why you have to do the terrible things you do. You’re pathetic, and I curse the day your eyes set their sights on me.
Do you know how much I rolled my eyes at your sorry attempts of writing me love letters?
Do you know how it made my skin crawl every time I had to lay with you?
Do you know how much I utterly hated you from the moment you enslaved my people? Yes, ENSLAVED. No matter how “favored” our position we were still SLAVES. And you made me your personal one.
I go to my grave happily knowing that I did everything I could to distract you from realizing the truth of our exodus before you could act in time. Know how a simple gnome woman fooled the mighty Emperor.
And if by some bizarre twist that you actually did have genuine feelings of love for me in that black heart of yours, then my revenge is even sweeter. Live with a broken heart, and may it hurt as much as all the pain you’ve ever inflicted onto others.
You will also find all the worthless letters you wrote to me. Take them back, and keep them as a reminder of your utter failure.
Tilda Zookwinkle: Proud gnome woman
Wow. This letter isn’t even addressed to you and you can feel the viciousness dripping from it. Good enough to rival the cruel ruthlessness of a svelk you think. It’s very apparent now why Casimir hated gnomes so much. You always knew it had to be more than what he told you.
She obviously was still having an effect on him for centuries as he kept his grudge and the letters rather than destroying them. Makes you think back to when he was trying to tell you that he knew about love and loss and how he was trying to guide you away from such things.
Of course you know the main reason was due to his own agenda, but now upon reading these letters, you can’t help but think a small portion was truthful and him speaking from this experience.
Casimir certainly kept his promise in one of his letters though; he did say Tilda would always be a major factor in his future goals. While Tilda may have gotten a little revenge, she didn’t exactly do her people any favors given what happened.
You wonder if she knew what lengths Casimir would ultimately go to utterly destroy her people, would she have done it anyway?