"These two cannot be together. She is a queen, and he is her loyal knight — perhaps too loyal. But their love

"These two cannot be together. She is a queen, and he is her loyal knight — perhaps too loyal. But their love could not be kept secret for long. The king ordered the knight executed, but the knight managed to slip away to the wilderness of the Narlmarches in the Stolen Lands. He hid there, away from civilization, with only animals and birds to keep him company. To remember his lost home, he brought a cypress twig with him and planted it in front of his hut."