sparing matches. He would also go on long marches and was taught to hate weakness, respect tradition and how to act like a man. Latter in his training he and his comrades would be pitted against maddened dogs and criminals from Tarrack’s vassals to give them a taste of real battle. When he was finally let into the military, something that three out of four of his peers died trying to become, he was part of a warrior elite feared throughout the world, a deadly halberdier without fear or pity, and having taken three wives did what he could to make sure that the future would contain more of what he was.



The other was a much more humble figure, a journeyman shoemaker from Vyrona. His father’s only son,he did whatever he could to make sure that his young lad stayed save as a child. Fortunately for his dad, he was a quiet young man who took a very keen interest in the shop and his father’s trade. His father was quite impressed at his handiwork, which was quite inventive and inspired, even if it was unpolished and his skills needed honing in a few areas. He eventually began to court a butcher’s daughter. He never held a weapon until war broke out between Tarrack and Vyrona and he was conscripted to defend his city state. His father did what he could and the shoemakers’ guild gave him a helmet, an old cutlass, a newer weapon and a rusty breastplate as well as a few weeks