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<p> </p> <p> It was the year 578, the 14 th day of the second month of spring. </p> <p> Deep within the countryside of the Valtian Kingdom, in the peaceful lands of Eastshire, a storm was brewing. </p> <p> Lord Taylor, the local Earl, had received an urgent missive from the capital. It brought word from the royal court, from the prince himself. The king had died, and the duke was now trying to seize throne. The prince called for the lord's help, for him to gather his forces and come to the capital. </p> <p> Nervous and pressed for time, the lord had no choice but to entrust the affairs of the house to his son, Leonard. He then left in the morning of the next day, accompanied by his wife and most of the estate's knightage. </p> <p> Without ever learning much about the reason for their departure, the young Leonard took over the role of a lord in his father's absence. </p> <p> Although deep down he knew something serious had happened, in his foolish eagerness to prove himself a worthy successor, he decided to ignore such matters and focus his attention solely on that which his father had entrusted to him. The management of the estate and the safety of his little sisters, the twins Iris and Alice. </p> <p> </p> <p> And that was his biggest mistake. </p> <p> </p> <p> A few weeks after his father and mother had left, merchant caravans suddenly stopped coming to the earldom. No news came from the capital and even adventurers had stopped showing up. It was like they had been cut off from the rest of the kingdom. </p> <p> Things had only gotten worse by the time when rumors of a band of orc raiders attacking villages at the earldom's borders started to reach Leonard's ears. </p> <p> Fearing for what would happen to his father's lands if such rumors happened to be true, the young lord decided to take matters into his own hands. Gathering whatever fighting forces were left at the estate, he set forward to the borders of the earldom in search of answers. </p> <p> What Leonard didn't know at that time, was that his decision to chase those rumors would set in motion a chain of events that would not only shape the future of his loved ones but also that of the entire world as he knew it. </p> <p> </p>
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