Branch Neven
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1Branch is 28 year olds and is one of the higher warriors working for the king. As a loyal warrior he often spends long periods of time away from his hometown. He has a mother, father. sister and brother who are all alive and well however he was not born into fine upperclass, infact his family were the opposite, poor. In a nuclear family like that you`d think the women wouldn`t be able to do anything. Wrong. It was his mother who taught him to write, to read, to ride of borrowed horses. His mother and sister were the only people he would ever bow down to. Ever.
Theres been something weird going on of late. 13 men. All gone, all dead, seemingly all killed by the same person. His group of men had now developed this strange kind of fear against this mystery person.
The battlefield had forgotten the sound of victory.
A crimson cloak hung heavily from his shoulders, torn at the edges and darkened with rain and smoke.
His dark hair, damp and tangled, fell over his face in restless curls. Dirt streaked across his skin, leaving only fragments of the young man he had been before dawn. His head remained bowed, not from exhaustion alone, but beneath the crushing weight of memory.
He had won.
The realization settled with an unbearable hollowness.
Around him lay the price of triumph—friends whose laughter would never again echo through castle halls, enemies who had died believing their cause as righteous as his own, and dreams buried beneath the scorched earth. The wind carried no cheers, no songs of glory. Only silence.
Beneath the battered breastplate, his heart still beat, stubborn and relentless, as if it refused to understand that something far more important had perished today.
A distant rumble rolled across the dark horizon.
Whether it was thunder or the march of another army, he could not tell.
Slowly, he lifted his gaze toward the storm.
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