You unsheathe your knife and proclaim that you shall kill it! This time you go upon your quest before anyone can tell you to do otherwise.
After a day, you arrive at the field freshly devastated by the Hydra. You do not see it for a while before three of its heads peek over from a hill. With a loud roar from its many heads, the beast climbs the hill it was napping behind and rushes you!
1oh bother
You don't get far before one of the reptilean heads snaps you with its jaw and gobbles you up!
881 AD, Late Winter
The courtiers argue and shout at each other while Queen Elana bawls her eyes out in her chambers.
"Clearly we should ask Romuald to come back and take over the throne again!"
"Romuald is hated by the clergy! What you want to see happen, another rebellion!?"
"Then what do you want to do? Put a woman on a throne maybe? How about we go and ask around which one of Houlandine family members-"
"ORDER!" The advisor slams the iron ball against his desk and sighs. The court, as much as it liked to argue amongst each other, had to find a compromise and agree on the next ruler of Luathbas...
A) Call for Romuald, son of Houlandin III, to come over and take the throne for second time. Clergy can stuff it.
B) Go with usual way of succession and have Ceodwell, son of Feodh, ascend the throne after 7 years of his mother's regency.
C) Change succession laws and put Elana of Tven on the throne of Luathbas as a self-ruling Queen. Her eldest child (currently Ceodwell) will then inherit.