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REX BRITANNORUM

The King of The Britons


Prologue To Rex Britannorum


“This place is nothing but rock and sand. This is what we were called to reclaim... thousands of miles of dry land that means nothing to a man of rolling hills and fields so vast you could gladly wander them for days. Holy Land my arse. Home for me is God's country.

I miss my home... I miss my wife, I miss my children. I miss the sound of men drunk with their roaring laughter and song filling the halls of our people... And instead I am here, at the beck and call of some fucking moch gogleddol who thinks himself a fucking emperor, calls himself Araltes. Typical Viking always taking what isn't theirs. Same goes for bloody Byzantines. They think they're fucking Romans with their talk of the empire never falling as they sit in Caergystennin acting like their farts don't smell.

I am no warrior but I am a soldier. I will live and die in service of my Lord, Merfyn ap Idwal, King of the Cymry just like my father before me served his Grandfather. Anarawd Adferwr. But if I am to die then let me die and old man, in my bed surrounded by my loved ones and not here, not in this blistering heat surrounded by others like me, men and boys far from their homes and their beds/ Surrounded by Byzantines just wanting to walk over our dead bodies once we've done the hard work so they can trample over our corpses, finish off the half dying and just take all the glory.

Worst of all is not knowing whether the Muslims will come get us before we even strike at Jerusalem. They aren’t even our enemy this eve, that would be the people they call the Khazars. Just another name to another people we've been sent to fight all in the name of God. Typical though really, we are just cattle to them, doesn't matter if we die, someone else will fall on a sword instead, there's always another body waiting to get stuck by an arrow, or a lance.

Knowing my luck I'll probably die of the heat before I die fighting. I've had enough... I want to go home... I wan”




-Diary entry of an unnamed Briton soldier found amongst the remains of massacre committed by Khazar soldiers in the year 1043. The diary or what remains were found by a contingent of King Merfyn ap Idwal's men sent to join up with their brethren but were too late.
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