Heya Everyone, so I was helping Dad with a boat delivery yesterday and saw another yacht with the name 'Tarragon'. A name, that to me, was worthy of a fantasy country, this is what came to mind whilst I was sailing.
A forgotten realm: Prologue:
Tarragon, much like every other realm, had seen more than its fair share of bloodshed. The blood of both its own and foreign (soldiers) soaked through its borders and deep into the ground. Its bloodstained paws reaching further and further forward under the command of its Kings before its fingers were shoved back. Progress halted and forced back by victors stronger than her own.
It was then that Tarragon’s lands truly became a battleground. Kings overthrowing each other as quickly as the wind changed. Rivers flowing red as warriors spilt their blood in the name of their King and Country. They fought to add to their own lands, and Tarragon shrank so others could grow.
It was strange then, she thought, that she could be so easily forgotten. Once tame fields and forests outgrew their boundaries and made her appear as abandoned as she felt. People that had once called her borders home taken as slaves and trophies of war, their descendants thinking Tarragon was a myth, a false hope murmured amongst those snatched from their own lands.
The rest cursed to an endless sleep, waiting for those they loved to return once more.
A myth, that one little girl dared believe in, captivated by the words that fell from lips of those too old to work but too young to be sent to die. Her carers all too eager to spill details of their formerly great homeland.
It was to Tarragons awaiting arms that that young girl snuck. An army at her heels and a dream locked in her mind. That she would be the one to bring Tarragon back from myth and return it once more to the legend that was painted in her mind.
This, is the story of Tarragon’s return to victory. Of the warrior queen and her determination to return her ancestor's homeland to its rumoured glory, and, in doing so, taking it far beyond.
This is the tale, of Tarragon and her girl.
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