Mycen would say it was true, and the man’s reputation in the village would have everything be left at that. The result was his snappish remark to the first who tried greeting him at the gates of Ram Village, though the boy seems to take it in some stride.īerkut was told to introduce himself as a distant relative of Alm coming to visit for a brief time before resuming his studies to the ‘North’, a cover which none in the reclusive village would be able to dispel. Peers were not something Berkut was used to given his royal upbringing, what with him knowing more of words and books than he did of people. Well-schooled for a boy not yet ten, Berkut balked as some tanned boy wearing green clothing tried slinging their arm around his shoulders as if they knew one another. Maybe…for none of this meant that Berkut was happy about this decision of his uncle, nor the knowledge that he would not in fact follow his uncle in ruling all of Rigel. “Who’s that with the old man? It’s not Alm, that’s for sure.”Īnd maybe, just maybe, forcing the haughty child named Berkut to live among the peasantry he already was learning to dislike from his mother would grant him perspective. All he had to do was make certain Berkut would not betray the secret to the Duma Faithful, and that was simple enough given that the young boy seemed to have no love for their kind already. Perhaps allowing a young boy to know of a vital secret could prove unwise, but as a father figure to Berkut the Emperor felt he would be able to keep him in line via his own influence. The alternative was to keep his nephew in the dark, an option that would allow tensions to rise and perhaps fester when the truth came out one day. The Emperor believed that it would be for the best that his own son and his nephew met earlier rather than later so that they may bond as children tend to do. It was under such circumstances that Berkut of Rigel’s royal family found himself carted off to a backwater town to the far south of the continent well beyond Rigel’s own limits. See who would be the one to one day be the true heir to the throne, he said. Visit a commoner's town, Emperor Rudolf said. Will spending time among common-folk and family he did not know he had inspire change in Berkut, or will he drag himself down through the flames of arrogance in spite of the opportunity offered? Description: Instead of being kept unaware to the existence of the true heir to the throne of Rigel his entire life, Berkut is sent to meet and befriend Alm in Ram Village at the behest of his uncle the King.

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