Born the first son of orres brautis, the third heir of Duke maghte brautis of the intaki, and Diplomata Secunda cindea brautis, my House was never destined to reach a life of pleasures or a place in His Majesty's Court. Granted, it could have been worse, its not lke being born to a just beaten dead slave mother and cut from her womb, but as a youth it would be years before I would witness such inhumanities at the hands of the Ammar, and decades before I could begin to understand the true depths to which man can sink to, and just as long to learn how to end it, one death at a time.
I was raised on Masalle V, they call it a gas planet, in reality its more of an frozen swamp surrounding a few small outcropping of land so over mined and over populated that those, like my parents opted instead to live on the monolithic ice breakers. traveling in fleets following the whales as they migrate. Back then I thought there was nothing worse than the stench and...