52 years ago, a great war broke out.
The Verenze Kingdom launched a brutal invasion into the lands of their neighbor, the Kingdom of Aurenfeld.
Caught off guard, Aurenfeld struggled to respond quickly enough to the sudden onslaught at its border. Their defenses, though solid, weren't prepared for such an ambitious assault.
But even before the invasion began in earnest, danger had already slipped past their walls, hiding in plain sight within the royal palace.
At the time, Crown Prince Arthur Aurenfeld was only eighteen years old.
The kingdom's ruling monarch, his father, lay bedridden, his body deteriorating from a powerful poison slipped into his meals. The act was carried out by a Verenzian spy who had been living among the palace staff for months, posing as one of them.
Thanks to a long-standing Aurenfeldian tradition that kept the identities of all royal heirs strictly confidential until their official public Descent, Arthur's life was saved.
