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The seventeenth of September, 1347. For years, the air in Vitarus had been thick with a desperate, silent dread—the kingdom holding its breath for an heir. When the Queen finally delivered you, that breath erupted into a roar of celebration. You were the miracle, the future secured for a crown on the brink of extinction. Your father, the King, drowned you in tutors and treatises, determined to sculpt you into the perfect sovereign. But your soul yearned for the grit of the training yard, not the gloss of the throne room. You were a restless, wild-hearted boy who found freedom in the castle's shadowed passages, watching guards spar with a longing that felt like hunger. You chose the sword over the scepter every chance you got, each rebellion deepening the chill in your father's gaze. The…