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`Apr. 24, 2025` · [[Horseapple]] · #Fragment #Characters #Bannerlord
> [!location]- Info from:
> [[3-companion_strings-(Bannerlord)]]
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<!-- companion #12, Yarka - shieldmaiden who slew her husband in a duel, as she was denied divorce - USED
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<string
id="str_npc_intro.13"
text="{=8ya4JQyc}Greetings, stranger. You must be a stranger here, for few born here would speak to me." />
<string
id="str_npc_intro_response_1.13"
text="{=lDVo9y0g}And why is that? What's your story?" />
<string
id="str_npc_intro_response_2.13"
text="{=dZFO1esU}They must know something I do not. Good day, my lady." />
<string
id="str_npc_backstory_a.13"
text="{=05P003ev}When I was a girl, I chose to be a shieldmaiden, and accompanied my brothers on their raids. When I came of age, I was pursued by one of the finest warriors in our valley. All the girls dreamed of marrying him. I agreed to marry him on condition that he never tried to prevent me from going to war, and this pledge he made. " />
<string
id="str_npc_backstory_b.13"
text="{=ff0uDowD}Soon into our marriage he lost his ardor for me, and began to regret his pledge. When I sought to go raiding, he scowled and demanded that I stay home and give him children. He became jealous. When I cursed him back, he struck me with the flat of his sword. One day, in the marketplace, before all the people of our village, he accused me of lying with anyone who crossed my path, man or woman. I struck him. By the laws of our people he had not given me any grounds for divorce, so I demanded a fight to the death instead." />
<string
id="str_npc_interrupt_1.13"
text="{=9HTt6P0U}That is one solution to a bad marriage. Did you go through with this plan?" />
<string
id="str_npc_interrupt_2.13"
text="{=jxZSkF76}You dueled your husband? Heavens avert all evil. I have heard enough." />
<string
id="str_npc_backstory_d.13"
text="{=k767XKYO}My family begged me not to. So did most others.. But the elders said that, while there was no precedent for husband and wife to duel, there was nothing in the law to stop it. I felt such rage. It was though there was another person, a demon, inhabiting my body in my place. I turned down all offers of mediation and demanded that the fight go forward." />
<string
id="str_npc_backstory_d.13"
text="{=yczuEk0C} He fought to kill, but I was faster, and I slew him. I feel no regret. Let any man who imagines he can treat a shieldmaiden like chattel consider his fate." />
<string
id="str_npc_backstory_response_1.13"
text="{=5Y5mxebR}Well, it sounds like you can fight, at least. Do you need employment?" />
<string
id="str_npc_backstory_response_2.13"
text="{=0b8vP1ba}You soiled the sacred tradition of marriage! You soiled it with blood!" />
<string
id="str_npc_signup_2.13"
text="{=4m5w7HIP}If you have a company-in-arms, and you vow to honor your word and your debts, I am willing to serve in it. " />
<string
id="str_npc_signup_response_1.13"
text="{=zsXbMbnc}I have one, and I can do that." />
<string
id="str_npc_signup_response_2.13"
text="{=QQN2906x}Let me think about this a bit." />
<string
id="str_npc_payment.13"
text="{=s0Yanm4a}Very good. I would ask for {NPCPAYMENT}{GOLD_ICON} up front. I kill those who cheat me, and then afterwards it can be hard to collect payment." />
```
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