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==A history of Anarawd: 460-482== The records of the Anarawd called [[Cynyr]] are scarce, early accounts mention him as “ap Edern”, others assign no such honorific. Possibly this is a title taken by [[Cynyr]] himself in some instances. All are agreed that [[Cynyr]] was a bastard Spurious, fathered by [[Edern]] two years before his death during the night of long knives. As is sometimes the case with bastards who are nonetheless taken into the family, [[Cynyr]] was immediately moved to kin within the extended line, his foster father a Sergeant serving the lord of Elmham Manor in [[Streamfield]] Hundred, County of [[Caercolun]]. Those who have spoken as to his motivations all agree that he felt an outcast from his earliest years, and no amount of inclusion into his foster family would change that. He wanted, above all, to become part of the true Anarawd family and openly recognized as a son to [[Edern]]. What then prompts the inclusion of a bastard, seemingly of little note, into these annals? In 881, as King [[Uther]] of [[Logres]] rode to war against the then Kingdom of Bedegrain, [[Cynyr]] took his first step out of obscurity. Days after the army had passed he took his fathers’ arms, armour, and horse and rode after, hoping to somehow reverse his fortunes. Accounts differ on the modus of acquisition, but most conjecture points to illness. With his father bedridden for the summer, [[Cynyr]] saw his chance. Having gotten sidetracked and lost in the wilderness on the way to [[Bedegraine]], [[Cynyr]] arrived just in time to see the battle of [[Bedegraine]], where King [[Uther]] later personally bested the king of [[bedegraine]] in personal combat, joined in earnest. One can imagine a young man, unused to war, confronting such a spectacle and trying to make sense of it, hesitating before overcoming fear and charging in. He must have sought the only banners he knew, riding through the fighting to reach Baron Thornbrushs unit. He had no business being there, and was surely possessed of immense luck, for upon arriving he charged into the enemy, confronting and slaying the notable lord Hyn before the Lord of Elmham Manors eyes. In the face of such valour, [[Cynyr]] was squired by that lord on the spot. His squirehood would be remarkably short. Having trained well under his father for many years, [[Cynyr]] knew his craft quite passably. The following year, Lord Elmham was sent to confront brigands plaguing the hundred [[Streamfield]]. Though most knights scoff at the notion, even ill-kempt knifemen pose a danger when outnumbering knights several times over. Seeing his lord dragged out of his saddle and beset by several foes, [[Cynyr]] rode in and scattered them using his horse as a buttress. He dragged the knight onto his horse, sustaining several knife wounds, and brought him back to the nearby Manor. For his service he was recommended for knighthood, and raised to that high honour that very year by Lord Elmham. Elmham asked Baron Thornbrush to take him into his household, and that great lord of [[Logres]] agreed. [[Cynyr]] would serve close to home in [[Salisbury]], Lluds manor, the kings treasury. The bastard son was one step closer to his goal, and to meeting his half-brother for the first time. [[Category:Tudwall's a history of the Anarawd]]
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