Now this little story has ended but the reader who perhaps has only a passing knowledge of the subsequent history of Nephatar may be a little confused, for this tale has stated that Maris was only the third son of King Lomas and yet it is well known that the Net of Pruth is an heirloom of the current line of the Fisher Kings and Queens. How so?
That, I am afraid, is a sad coda to our story, for third sons can become first sons in ways that no one expects or desires. Less than five years after the wedding of Maris and Hella, Panath Lomas, the eldest son of King Nathaniel and Queen Verity Lomas was killed in a hunting accident, newly married himself but still childless. Only three years later, Maris lost his other brother, Karth, when he fell to his death in a climbing accident, leaving no heir behind him.
Thus it came to pass by the strange rules of fate, that eighteen years after our story ends when King Nathaniel died from a wasting disease, it was Maris who ascended to the throne of the Fisher King, a role he had never expected nor wanted to hold. As King Maris II, his wife was elevated into the lines of Fisher Queens. and that is how Hella, a simple Earthengrew orphan joined a famous lineage, a lineage which she gifted with the Net of Pruth via her son who in due course became King Wintham I.
