War Heart

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Enevar Lifer, an old man, now a farmer, and in the not-so-distant past, a'something else'he wished to never revisit again. As a man of humble stature, he was content with the life he led now.

Taking care of a homestead that his dead late wife had left him, he seemed to spend his remaining days in retirement as a recluse, as far away as possible from civilization.

The old man loved his peace.

But tranquility shattered when, a decade later at the age of 78, Enevar's newfound peace crumbled. Mercenaries, remnants of the war between the Mundar Kingdom and the Fandral Empire, descended upon him. They pillaged his home, and set it ablaze, leaving only ashes of the life he cherished.

Spared from death by a thread of pity, Enevar witnessed his haven consumed by flames, memories of his wife tarnished.

As dawn broke, the marauders vanished, leaving Enevar with nothing but the smoldering ruins of what remained of his wife's memories.