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Chapter 24: A True Story
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Some stories are true, but most are half true. It depends what you prefer. But the story I’m about to tell is more than true. I remember the events that occurred some five hundred years ago like they were yesterday. There are only a few more events that are deeply engraved in my memory besides this one.
Allow me start with the cold, boring facts about how it all began. The land, where I am from, lays far beyond the forest, hidden by tall, snowy mountain peaks and unknown and hard to track terrain, ruled over by a certain Prince Val Dragwer, or in the native language Val Dracul the Third. A prince, a general, a warrior, a warlord all of this he is; but above else he’s a strategist that carefully calculates his every move, in order to gain the upper hand and save as much of his people as he can. Generous and terrible, merciful and cruel, he’s all this and more at the same time.
But this isn’t a story about him, this stories is about how I got
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