Love forbidden is twice as sweet.
Everyone knows you love the princess, but the son of a minor duke is not destined for such a marriage.
The princess was trained far better than you in the courts arts.
Which is why only you knows that she loves you back. Stolen glances and smiles in secret little moments. Coded language and futile gestures have been your love language.
Today though it is not enough.
Today the drums of war shake the stone of your home.
Today the guitars sing of glory and battle.
Today the dead themselves rise to reclaim the world from the living.
They lay siege to the capital, and the call has gone out for aid.
You should not answer it, but you couldn't stop yourself if you tried.
A choice lies before you.
THE SWORD lies in stone waiting for another hand to grasp it. It offers power forging your soul into a sword the way iron becomes a blade, by reshaping and removing what is not needed. None who have drawn that sword have lived a peaceful life and all have died still holding onto it. It would change you from the man she once loved but she would be alive to hate your choice.
Or you may trust in your Arcana and the secrets of the universe you have worked to gleam.
[] Draw the blade, cut the distance between you and the princess and stand beside her to protect her from the undead horde. Cut them as the scythe does the wheat.
[] Disregard the blade, literally reach into the sky and rip a lightning bolt from the sky to ride to the capital. Bring thunder upon the dead and leave only ashes in your wake.