knight

The city was burning. Screams could still be heard in the distance, cries of anguish, cries for help.
The general, the king's most loyal and powerful knight, walked away from his troops who were now celebrating the conquest of the city and sat on the steps of a church now in ruins. Darkness surrounded him like a shroud, his blood-stained blade a reminder of the lives taken that night and the night before that.
15 years. Fifteen years of his life fighting in an endless war, battle after battle, massacre after massacre. Would it never end?
When he left his kingdom, the king held his shoulder and told him that this would save lives, that going to war was a great honor and that he could be the hero of the idea. The knight still remembers the shine in the monarch's eyes, still remembers the bishop beside him blessing him, blessing the general with words in Latin.
They told him that this would take him to heaven, that God would wait for him with open arms. Now the knight knew that his only destiny was the fires of hell. He almost wished for that, to just close his eyes and die, to pay for his sins, to pay for all the lives taken. Could he even consider himself a man anymore? Or was all that was left was a monster who knew nothing but how to kill? He was tired to the bone, so tired that it was as if his entire body was numb. He no longer felt pain, or fear, much less hope. Everything was just a sea of ​​cold indifference. Cold. He felt the cold, so much of it. There was no going back. This war would never end, he would die on the battlefield sooner or later, he even prayed for it. The knight removes the helmet that protected his head and runs a hand through his long black hair with a few strands of white and just stands there watching the rest of that city burn and waiting for his men to finish the party, which would probably only happen the next day.
He starts to get more breathless, breathing coming in short bursts, his hands tremble and he feels like he's drowning.

Who will you be in this world? How will your story intertwine with that of the knight Lioran Magnus? Will you be a peasant survivor of this burning city? Will you be one of the soldiers? A beautiful princess? It's up to you.