{"id":381,"date":"2024-05-03T16:24:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sleeplessprogrammer.net\/magnumopus\/?p=381"},"modified":"2024-05-03T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:39:27","slug":"destiny-embraced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sleeplessprogrammer.net\/magnumopus\/destiny-embraced\/","title":{"rendered":"Destiny Embraced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-small-font-size\"><br><br>From her birth, the name had a destiny,<br><br>It meant \u2018ruler\u2019, \u2018king\u2019 and \u2018maiden\u2019 or \u2018girl\u2019,<br><br>In sagas of old it was foretold,<br><br>Of a figure who would become renown,<br><br><br>Of Beauty, Wisdom, Of Courage Unseen,<br><br>Her named was Rigmor, the future high queen,<br><br>From her union with the Dovah, Morgan, and Mede,<br><br>Came another whose name, Kintyra was from the line of royalty,<br><br><br>Her destiny had been set by the Aedra of that age,<br><br>When it was said she would be the beginning of a great golden age,<br><br>From her union with Kendra, Blood of Lost Kings of Old,<br><br>Came another whose destiny was foretold,<br><br><br>Her full name, which was learned,<br><br>At the reading of an old tome,<br><br>Written by one Martin Blackwell,<br><br>Keeper of the histories, of Kings and Queens,<br><br>Katrina Morgan, Septim, Kendra was destined to be,<br><br><br>A name who would restore time, and the line of Septims,<br><br>To the thrown of the empire for ages unseen,<br><br>Her first name was Katrina meaning \u2018Pure of Heart\u2019,<br><br>The next name in line was Morgan, which meant \u201cSong of the Sea\u201d,<br><br>The part named Septim was the line of royalty destined to be,<br><br>Those that held the dragon blood would be restored to the line of kings and queens,<br><br>The last name of Kendra, meant of Knowing, Of Royal Power and Great Hero,<br><br><br>As it was foretold by the last of its kind that stayed,<br><br>She had been named \u2018Dovah, Do, Daah, Bok\u2019, \u2018Dragon of This Age\u2019,<br><br>On her blood her destiny had been learned,<br><br>In the language of the Dovah, \u2018Tiid, Los, Hin, Dez\u2019, \u2019Time Is Your Destiny\u2019,<br><br>It had been said, when all had that had been shattered,<br><br>Was again restored and whole,<br><br><br>The truth of that naming would then become well known,<br><br>We all will be waiting for you when you return,<br><br>To your home amongst the pathways of time, <br><br>To your family who awaits you too,<br><br><br>Hidden somewhere in that line,<br><br>One amongst them, would embrace you,<br><br>With the return of her daughter,<br><br>Most precious beyond all she held true,<br><br><br>She knew that destiny embraced their names,<br><br>Until all 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