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My name is Jamie and this is Episode 293.

The Beacons are lit.

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When we left off, Atholstan had recently died.

Olaf had returned from Dublin and been crowned as King of Yorvik, which meant that the Kingdom

of Yorvik was now back.

The English ferd was still recovering from the bloodbath of Brunembourg, and the English

Navy were currently sailing up and down the French coast, shouting Liberté, Fraternite,

Hirase.

It was looking bad.

And for the 18-year-old King Edmund, the political problems were only the tip of the iceberg.

They were also the personal struggles.

The preceding few years had resulted in all of his foster brothers leaving court, which

wouldn't have been so bad were it not for the fact that Atholstan had recently died.

And so now the young King was without a father figure and a mentor.

And all that remained of his childhood court was Edmund's 16-year-old brother, Adred.

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