Choking the Gallows
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Choking the Gallows was a virtual representation of one of Eivor Varinsdottir's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.
Description
After determining the identity of The Gallows, also known as Reeve Selwyn, with Reeve Goodwin, Eivor went to the town square market, where Selwyn was showcasing a public execution of a couple, to assassinate him.
Dialogue
As Eivor arrived at the town square market, she located the execution stage. People of Wincestre gathered as the stage showed the executioner standing while the couple was on their knees. Then, Selwyn walked on stage with guards as the couple looked at each other. Mid-speech, a young Anglo-Saxon girl walked into the crowd to watch the event.
- Selwyn: Good people of Wincestre. Open your eyes. See how Aelfred's lofty ideals are weighed down in the mire of human effluence. These prisoners before you do not live by Aelfred's laws. They live above them. They wallow in shit, only guided by their own perversity. Hubert here, his wits addled by ale, spoke false of Bishop Ealhferth, our pious servant of Wincestre, who even now lies cold in his grave-shroud.
- Leona: Ealhferth was no man of God! He'll burn for his sins!
Selwyn walked towards Leona, then slapped her, and then spoke to Hubert.
- Selwyn: Your wife is a baying shrew, Hubert! Is there a man here who has not supped rancid mead from her cup?
Out in the crowd, a man spoke as the young girl looked at him.
- Anglo-Saxon Man 1: When will your work be done, Selwyn? When all of Wincestre falls to your justice?
Selwyn then gestured his guards, who grabbed the man and dragged him off.
- Selwyn: Wincestre has passed judgment, Hubert. May God have mercy on your cankerous soul.
Hubert was then pushed down as his head was on the chopping stump. The executioner swung his blade and chopped Hubert's head off, as Leona looked away. Then, Selwyn stood proudly towards the crowd.
- Selwyn: There are rats in the grain store, and Aelfred has set the traps. You cannot steal and be welcomed at our hearths. You cannot slander and keep your tongue. You cannot walk freely through our streets, mocking our laws, our king's edict. And so I ask, who has the right to determine the fate of the perverse, if not the goodly people of Wincestre. I am but your humble servant. Leona, you have been found guilty of harlotry and defamation. May God have mercy on your pockmarked soul.
Before Selwyn can execute Leona, Eivor came and assassinated Selwyn. In the Memory Corridor, Eivor and a ghostly Odin looked and walked to a hanging tree as Selwyn appeared from behind it.
- Selwyn: Perverter of justice! Who dares execute the King's noose?
- Eivor: It is not in Aelfred's name that you carry out your work. You are the Order's executioner.
- Selwyn: Ah. You peer through the veil, but you do not see clearly. Aelfred's laws are a slave's fever-dream. He offers shit-soaked beggars a seat at his table. Where the meek devour the strong. Who best to judge the fate of the wretched many, if not the strong and worthy few?
- Odin: To protect your people, you must sheathe your hand in an iron glove.
- Eivor: You grind your heels into the backs of freedmen, not those who deserve it.
Selwyn held his medallion and retorted. Mid-response, the tree lowers a noose by Selwyn. The noose then hanged Selwyn.
- Selwyn: The Order condemns all men to pain, for all men are but a shadow of the perfection we should know. The perfection of the Ancient Ones.
- Eivor: You are only a man, reeve. One dead branch on a fast dying tree.
During the hanging, Selwyn dropped his Order medallion as Eivor went to pick it up. Selwyn succumbed to the hanging and his spirit immediately vanished. After the Memory Corridor, Eivor then headed Goodwin to report the events.
Outcome
Eivor found and assassinated The Gallows, thus saving Leona and ending his abuse of power over Wincestre. Eivor then headed back to Goodwin to see if he dug any clues about The Quill.
Trivia
- This memory shares a commonality with the memory "Rise of the Assassin" in Assassin's Creed: Unity. Both Selwyn and Aloys la Touche were both executioners, using a king's laws or the current war, respectively, for their own abusive use of power.
Gallery
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Selwyn walks on stage, while Leona glares at him
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Selwyn executed Hubert and stands proudly
