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Josiah, the Warlock Bard

"Lo! Comes ye bright dawn and his name is called Josiah!". If the name Josiah von Hyden does not sound familiar, it is because, despite the fact that he was a brilliant writer, composer, minstrel, teacher and dancer, he was above all else, a warlock, and this, alone, kept him from getting the just recognition he so richly deserved. Josiah was born as a child of Duke Eiled von Hyden and his lovely wife, Meggana circa May 24,1431 in the beautiful city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Josiah was the eldest of seven children, besides Josiah, there was Marken (1433-1517), Carnellen (1437-1480), Danne (1440-1453), Rjin (1442-1463, Michal (1444-1489) and Tomss (1444-1445). Duke von Hyden was an extremely wealthy land owner and raised his children with kindness and great understanding. He instilled it into all of them, but none absorbed it so hungrily as Josiah, the boy was a fast learner whose first belief was the old saying: "Be kindest to those around thee, for tis said truth, for what doth go around, sooner or later shalt come around." Simply said,"What comes around, goes around." Josiah wished to be loved and respected and knew he needed to deliver these traits if he wished them returned. He was well aware of his power as a warlock and knew from whomit came as he had read extensivly of Trese, the Warlock so unjustly murdered before he'd lived his life. Josiah chose to Champion Trese and sided with his blood and kin and held fast to his fair lineage. In 1446 he was given his own home by his father and a certain amount of money to see if the boy was indeed, intelligent enough to make his own way in the world. The giant home, called Venderhague, became Josiah's pride and joy. He used part of the money given him to put himself into the University of Rotterdam, where he met the beautiful Pamellen Sadaren, (1429-1449), they fell passionately in love and were married later that same year. Pamellen and Josiah were very happy in their huge home, Pamellen learned many great housekeeping skills from her mother-in-law, she proved an excellent hostess for Josiah's entertaining parties and a most passionate wife for Josiah himself. They enjoyed playing games, such as hide'n'seek, tag and chase. They also enjoyed quiet times like just sitting beside the fireplaces on cold winter days and nights talking and enjoying each others' company. Pamellen was a petite beauty with very long auburn hair and large gray-green eyes. While her Josiah was a strikingly handsome youth with long dark hair of black-brown hue, and eyes that perfectly matched his hair,he was fair skinned tall and slight of structure, yet so regal a sight was he. They were so happy,it seemed nothing could shake Josiah's happiness, until that fateful day in the year of tragedy, 1449 when in her ninth month of child carrying fair Pamellen died giving life to Josiah's daughter, Anne, October 15 was the date then. Josiah was devastated, he was certain life was over,that he would never again find love. He launched himself into school and work, attending the university by day while his mother tended Anne, and then working for the Village Cryer newspaper at night. Usually,when he finally finished a day,he was so tired he often went home, cared for his daughter and went to bed with her cuddled in his arms, usually eating very little and sometimes not at all. He finally met Katheryn Eidenhakken (1434-1498), she had offered him comfort after Pamellen died, and Josiah, a lonely child, accepted willingly. They wed in the year 1450 and Josiah was again, happy at last, but, through all his ecstatic bliss, he never forgot Pamellen, for whom he wrote the poem,"Summer Storm". Katheryn convinced Josiah to leave Venderhague as the memories were too painful to take for the young bard. So, reluctantly, Josiah and his family moved to a new home, as large as Venderhague called Llewennoir, where Anne was raised as lovingly by Katheryn as if she were her own daughter. And then the young bard/warlock set himself to writing and other such affairs never once forgetting nor neglecting his duties as a husband and father. The happy couple had five fine children of their own, so along with Anne there was six, Aramand in 1450, Elisa in 1452 her twin sister Lyria in 1452, Ankka in 1455, Josiah in 1457 and Trese in 1459. Josiah was a very busy writer and those works are; "Words of a Madman" (1447), "Visions" (1448), "A Prelude to Love" (1449), "Josiah's Book of Verse" (1450), "For My Beautiful Wife, Katheryn" (1451), "Friends Are Poetry" (1452), and "Verses For Children" (1453) are his books about verse and there are other so lovely diverse. "Der Hexen" (1447), "Hafen des Geistes" (1449), "Lo! Comes The Dawn!" (1452), "The Words of Trese" (1455), "Visions of the Past" (1458) are his books true to historical form, and then, "Still There Are Heroes" (1451), "The Gathering Storm" (1458), "An Encounter at Stratgaard Keep" (1460), and "Lo! Sweet Victory!" (1474), he also worked tirelessly as a dancer for the Royal Courts of Amsterdam, a minstrel fair of music and voice, a teacher at the University of Rotterdam teaching writing,music and mathmatics. He composed music for any who would pay him and for the church, whom he charged no fare, he was even an innkeeper for an establishment fittingly named, "The Minstrel's Song". Tragedy once again found Josiah's life when his eldest son, Aramand,died of a combination of pneumonia and tuberculosis. Once more Josiah was devastated, the pain was so hard on him that he barely survived it, had it not been for Katheryn chances are he may not have. They buried Aramand in a private cemetery on the family grounds of Llewennoir. Josiah then set himself to work as never before. Till at last came the final chapter of the Bright Bard, Josiah. On the date August 14, in the sad year, 1475, Josiah suffered what can only be described as a mass coronary, compounded by a bi-hemispheric stroke which killed the Bright Bard at the very young age of only 44 years. The entire country of Holland (Netherlands) wept for sweet Josiah faire. They buried him in the chapel of Saint Eligis, at the base of the holy altar, a place of regal regard.' 'Italic text--Warlockbard (talk) 18:48, 23 June 2008 (UTC)Bold text '