The city of Aurum, where the consulate rises every day as the dragon head overseeing the structure of one amongst myriad nations serving the god of law–the day after the hero's arrival–burned with smoke and echoed with the shrieks of enemies. Set aflame were the outer farmlands, and the farmers were butchered alongside the soldiers guarding the consulate's territory.
News of their murder arrived long after the soot from burnt farms had settled on the white borders of the city. The messengers–or the messenger who was dead on arrival and yet managed to carry himself on his trusted steed possessed a letter detailing in blood and frenzied words exactly what had happened. He was quickly taken in for a proper burial, but the news of the butchery traveled to the queen much later.
