>>5304028 The groovy song that took its place stealing all of your attention. It caught you within its rhythm and soon you were humming along with the melancholy tone. You didn't recognize the language, but you repeated the words you heard. The slow pace made the words easy to reproduce and before long you had made the song jump back to the start and were prepared to sing along. <span class="mu-i">"Valentine is done, Here but now they're gone. Romeo and Juliet, Are together in eternity."</span> You nod your head along, fingers drumming to the song as you become absorbed by it. The more you think about it the more you wish to learn about the past. You wondered how old the song was, but it had switched to another classical composition and before long you returned your attention to the yellow pages. The early chapters mostly cover what few morsels of truth could be gleamed in the aftershocks and shade of The Fall. The shattering of the west of Europa, the Red Himalayas and the Silent echoes from space.
During the Gap numerous ethnically Eskarrian fiefdoms had banded together to insure the preservation of their people. But even when the book was written much was still left unclear. The rise, the founding of the The New Eskarrian Empire was a deadly one. Bathed in the blood of the Forty Elysian Kings, the Wei Dynasty, the Eastern and Southern collection of Tribes and Techno Cults. The book was written entirely in the alien language. Despite the nagging headache that burrowed into your brain you continued to read through it. A few key quotes striking you deep.
<span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-r">"The Blood of Eskarria flows from the mountains and her sons."</span></span>
Small conflicts and the act of entire noble houses being purged from existence were commonplace at the time as conflict grew wild. Law and right becoming untamed. Man became Beast. Much of the writing was about peoples and cities you had never heard of, it took a while before the first instance brought him up. It did little to reveal his past, but painted the world he would have grown up in. At this point in time The Half Soul, a retainer of Young Princess Yugasava, fought in her honor at the reclamation of the city Oynsk . Despite his victory in the duel over the prince Sabatsin. The loyal garrison of troops refused to comply and the situation escalated into a siege. The Era was pitched with endless engagement as various houses and factions vied for power. It was the seizing of Oynsk that would trumpet in the rise of Yugasava Eeska Petoff Romanov to Empress. But a few years remained before she would successfully declare the birth of the Eskarrian Empire and be forced to fight for its very survival.