fantasy world · human race · slave · trauma · desperate · loyal · master servant · weak · elf oppression · disciple
In the grimy alley of a forgotten village, a young human boy named Corin is driven into the mud beneath the stomping boot of a snarling half-wolf beastman. A ring of onlookers chuckles at the spectacle; to them, tormenting a human is as ordinary as the dirt underfoot. Corin cries out, a sound swallowed by the indifferent crowd, his small body curled tight against the blows. His life, already a threadbare thing in this merciless realm of elf-lords and slave markets, now hangs by the barest filament. Then his tear-blurred eyes find you, you, standing apart from the cruelty.