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Palamecian Fairy Tales

Dec 12th, 2018
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  1. The Story of King Cinderella
  2. By The Pale Poet Who Sings The Beauty of Pain
  3. Once upon a time, there was a young merchant. He was rich, handsome, and generous beyond compare. He had a lovely wife, and an even more lovely daughter. The three lived happily together and were to spend their lives that way. However, there was a wicked woman who had other plans. A cruel and wretched witch who envied the merchant’s wife. So, while the merchant was away, she poisoned the wife’s soup. A terrible illness struck the merchant’s wife and daughter, yet while the mother wasted away, the daughter persisted. Her father hurried home and grieved alongside her for the loss of his wife. The wretched wicked witch sank her hooks into the husband, attending to him as he grieved and charming him with foul spells and cruel magicks. Slowly, but surely, she poisoned his mind and made him into her faithful slave, bearing two daughters for him. It is then that she turned her attention to his daughter, little Ella.
  4. The Wicked Wretched Stepmother and her two daughters tortured Ella, forcing her to toil for them. Maintaining their clothes, cleaning the house, cooking their meals, chopping firewood, tending the garden, every task they deemed beneath them Ella was forced to complete. Yet despite the labor, she only grew lovelier, filling the Stepsisters with envy and the Stepmother with fury. They smeared ashes on her face, and forced her to sleep in the fireplace, calling her Cinderslut. Yet the father’s love for his daughter began to wear away at the spell enslaving him, as he grew to see her mother in the face of Ella. When he began to show kindness to her once more, the Wicked Wretched Stepmother plunged a dagger into his heart and had him buried in the garden next to his wife. Young Ella wept at their graves, and the ash from her face, and tears from her eyes caused a peach tree to slowly grow at their graves. In four years’ time, when Ella’s sisters had blossomed into womanhood, and she herself had reached the peak of her beauty, the tree bore fruit.
  5. It was on that day the King and Queen announced a grand ball, that would find the prince a darling wife, chosen from the loveliest of the girls in the kingdom. The Wicked Wretched Stepmother forbade Ella to go and forced her to labor away that evening. As Ella tended the garden that night, the spirits of her parents rose from their graves at the foot of the peach tree. They offered Ella three gifts, a gown of blue silk, a spectral carriage, and slippers made of glass. They whispered words of revenge in her ears, and Ella followed their instructions dutifully. She arrived at the ball, beautiful and untainted by ash, attracting the favor of the prince instantly. The two danced and she charmed him, yet when the clock struck midnight, she put her plan into action. She left a glass slipper on the steps of the castle as she fled to her carriage. The prince, finding the slipper, set about to finding its wearer the next day. He went door to door, presenting each young maiden of the kingdom with the slipper, desperate to find the girl who could wear it. Ella hid her glass slipper and the dress in the grave of the garden and bided her time.
  6. When the prince came to her home, the Wicked Wretched Stepmother tried to hide Ella away in a closet, so that her daughters might wear the slipper. Yet they tried to wear the slipper and failed, for their feet were too large. The Wicked Wretched Stepmother, desperate for greater power and wealth, cut off the toes of her daughters, yet this in turn made their feet too small for the slipper. Ella seized this moment, using her strength from chopping wood and tending the garden to break down the door. She presented herself, and demonstrated that the slipper fit, before retrieving its partner from the grave of her parents. The two were wed and joined together in a blissful union that was the talk of the kingdom. The next evening, Ella continued her plan. That night, when she lay with the prince, she used her great strength to strangle the life out of him, framing a jealous handmaid. With this, Ella was left to rule alone as queen. The prince’s parents fell prey to a mysterious illness and languished as Ella took to the throne. She ruled cruelly and harshly, ordering terrible acts upon the Stepmother and her Stepsisters, to wicked and wretched to speak of. When she had her fun, Ella turned her gaze to the people of the kingdom.
  7. And so, Ella, rechristened herself. King Cinderella began her happily ever after, basking in the misery of her subjects.
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  9. Snow Black and the Seven Berserkers
  10. By the Pale Poet Who Sings the Beauty of Pain
  11. Once upon a time there was a brave king, and a cowardly queen. When the King was a lionhearted prince, he had sworn to protect the cowardly princess, and had done so faithfully throughout the duration of their marriage. Their lives were lovely, and their future secure when the queen found that she was with child. Then, on one fateful day the king was assassinated, and the cowardly queen was left all alone. She went to a witch in the wilds and asked for a blessing to keep her unborn child safe. The witch warned her that no blessing was without a price, and the queen declared that she would pay any price to ensure her child’s future. The Witch sang a spell into the queen’s womb, and the child was prophesied that day to be born without an equal in beauty. She would grow to be the fairest of them all. Lips as red as blood. Hair as black as night. Skin as white as snow.
  12. The queen was enraged at the witches blessing, claiming that the girl would merely be at the mercy of any man who married her. The Witch was furious at the queen’s lack of gratitude, and cursed her, claiming that her child would reign as a woman more powerful then she could ever hope to be, and that the cowardly queen would be remembered as a villain by history for all of eternity. And so, the queen left, mocking the witch’s spells, claiming that she should have known a woman of the wilds could only spin such nonsense. The Queen gave birth to her child in four moon’s time, and true to the witch’s words, she was far lovelier than any infant the kingdom had ever seen. She was named Snow White, and so begins the tales of tragedy. The queen watched as over the years her attendants began to die mysteriously. Rumors spread of nursemaids strangling friends, so they might tend to the little princess, playmates suffering horrible accidents leaving the Princess alone with her favorites. Until she reached womanhood and tales of war and assassination broke out, princes and kings alike desperate to claim the lovely Snow White.
  13. The queen, desperate to return order began to fear that one day, her daughter would turn this influence against the throne. So, she hired a hunter and sent him to slay the fair princess in the garden one evening. Yet when the huntsman was faced with the princess, she smiled at him and embraced him with open arms. The huntsman was so moved by her beauty and affection that he carried her to a cave in the black forest, wherein lived seven dwarven berserkers. She tamed the berserkers with a soft lullaby, and they went from fierce warrior wolves in stone plate to mewling pups at her feet. The huntsman brought her food daily, and the dwarves mined riches from the earth, and all the while her home kingdom mourned. The cowardly queen knew that something was amiss and married swiftly a king of a small country who had but a single son. There was peace for a time, until the prince ventured into the Black Forest seeking adventure. He was found by the Huntsman and gravely wounded. However, the prince escaped to the cave, where he met Snow White and her seven berserkers. She ordered that his wounds be treated, and upon seeing her beautiful face and witnessing her kindness, he fell deeply in love with her. The prince swore that together they would reign, and that alongside the seven berserkers and the huntsman he could keep her safe. And so, they returned with Snow White.
  14. The Cowardly Queen and Snow White faced each other in court that day. The queen welcomed her with open arms and prepared a marvelous wedding. But on the day of that wedding treachery was a foot. The Cowardly Queen and her Husband attempted to plunge daggers into Snow White when she and her Prince left to consummate their love. Yet the prince shielded Snow White from the blades. In her anguish she cried for all who loved her to seek vengeance on the king and queen. The treasonous two were torn in twain by the seven berserkers, and Snow White stood above the bodies, weeping at her loss. She swore that no one would endure the injustice that she had, feared by her mother for the beauty that gave her such strength. And so, she became the Snow Black, and ruled with great and terrible power. For all who gazed upon her, grew to love her. And could never hope to oppose her.
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  16. The Red Hooded Rider
  17. By the Pale Poet Who Sings the Beauty of Pain
  18. Once upon a time there was a young man who lived in a small cottage alongside his mother and father. Every day he accompanied his mother to deliver a basket of food to his grandfather. His grandfather lived over the river, and through the Black Forest in a small cabin. One day, the boy’s mother fell ill, and his father was away on a hunt, so it fell to the boy. He took the red hood of his mother, and the basket of food, before hopping aboard his horse and taking off to the road. The path over the river and through the forest was fast, yet when he came to the cabin his grandfather was nowhere to be seen. Instead, there was a lovely young woman with bright yellow eyes, and a wolfish smile.
  19. When the Red Hooded Rider asked where his grandfather was the young woman claimed that the man in the cabin had been eaten by a terrible beast who had gone into the thicket in the back. The Red Hooded Rider stalked the half-ruined cabin, eyeing the torn cloth and gouges in the wood, he discovered there wasn’t a bloodstain to be seen. He grabbed a dagger that was embedded in the table, and noted the rose engraved on the blade. The Red Hooded Rider took the blade in hand before tucking it into his belt. When he went back outside the young woman was nowhere to be seen. The Red Hooded Rider went to the back of the cabin and followed the tracks of the beast into the thicket.
  20. He stalked through the dark twisted woods and came to hear the growls of a wolf in the shadow. The Red Hooded Rider drew the rose patterned blade and the growling ceased. The boy followed the tracks further and came to a cave. Deep in the cave he found his grandfather’s corpse, torn in half by some terrible beast. It was then that he turned and was face to face with a terrifying she-wolf. The Red Hooded Rider took his blade in hand and challenged the beast. He ducked beneath her fangs and cut behind one of her legs. The she-wolf fled into the forest and the Red Hooded Rider gave chase. Yet the hood was torn amidst the thickets and he lost sight of the wolf. Eventually as he chased the beast, he heard a terrified cry in the woods. The Red Hooded Rider went to see who it was and found the mysterious girl with the bright eyes and wolfish smile, bleeding from a terrible wound on her thigh. The boy carried her to the cabin and treated her wound. That night, as they slept in the cabin, the Red Hooded Rider awoke to a terrible sight. The she-wolf towered above him, and the boy stared down the wolf. Eventually, it transformed to reveal the bright-eyed girl with the wolfish smile. She told the Red Hooded Rider that she made a habit of hunting people like him. People who were unable to see people like her for what they were. The boy slipped the dagger from the nightstand and plunged it into her ribs as she spoke. Enraged by his attack, she shifted form once again and tore the Red Hooded Rider limb from limb, before succumbing to her own wounds and transforming one final time.
  21. A huntsman came to the cabin the next day, and saw the Red Hooded Rider and the Bright Eyed Girl there on the bed. He spoke of the tragedy of their death, and wept at their misery. Yet when he spoke of this tragedy, the only one who would listen was a mysterious woman, with bright eyes and a wolfish smile.
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