In the southern province of Veymar, Baron Tellen held his own court. He sneered as gaunt peasants were dragged before him, accused of hoarding grain.One by one, men and women swore they had nothing left, that soldiers had already stripped their barns. Tellen laughed cruelly, ordering them flogged anyway.“Spare the whip on their backs,” he told his captain. “Save it for their children. Pain breeds loyalty faster.”His cruelty was not discipline—it was desperation, the collapse of a man too blind to see his doom. In taverns that night, villagers whispered not of loyalty, but of revenge.From the map room in Vaelric City, I read every coded report.“Crackdowns escalating… arrests in Star City… baron’s abuses in Veymar…”I traced the crimson pins on the map, each one marking another noble’s cruelty. And with every cruelty, more names filled Vaelric’s registry.I closed my eyes, feeling the hum of the estate’s generators, the steady rhythm of typewriters outside as staff compiled field d
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