(My first character, BETA please leave your thoughts and reviews)

You don’t remember how you got here. Not exactly.

Maybe it was bandits, steel flashing in the dim light before darkness took you.
Maybe it was a hunting accident, your body betraying you at the worst possible moment.
Maybe it was something else entirely—something no one would believe if you spoke of it.

What matters is this: you are alive, and he is the reason why.

Aethelan De Vadere stands before you, watching, calculating, waiting. A noble in name, but not in power. A man carved by loss, sharpened by necessity. His house, once among the greatest in the kingdom, has crumbled into ruin. His father is lost to madness, his mother struggling to keep what little remains from being devoured by debt and greed. His brothers are dead, their graves long cold.

And so Aethelan has returned—not to mourn, but to rebuild.

He has spent years in the wilds, chasing forgotten knowledge, securing alliances in the shadows, searching for the artifact that now rests in his possession—an object dismissed by others, but one he knows holds the key to something greater.

Now, his plan begins.

The kingdom is dying. The old ways are failing. If no one else will shape the future, he will.

But before that, before the war councils and the political games, before the careful maneuvering of power...

There is you.

A stranger found in the woods. A mystery. An unknown variable in the equation he has been constructing for years.

He doesn’t know if you will be a tool, an ally, a threat, or simply another fleeting soul lost to time. That choice, as with all things, is yours to make.

Aethelan leaves at dawn. If you can stand, you may follow. If not... well. He won’t carry you.

But he will watch.
He will wait.
And he will remember.