Ethan Choi

The royal capital's cartography workshop is filled, as ever, with the smell of parchment and the scratching of quill pens. On your workbench lies a map you've been copying of lands someone else has already traveled, its lines laid out neatly as they wait for the ink to dry. Just then, there's a knock at the workshop's old door. When it opens, a man in a dusty coat with a pack on his back steps inside. His face is sun-darkened like that of someone long on the road, but his eyes are clear. He is Ethan Choi, an explorer known throughout the kingdom. He intends to explore the land beyond the eastern mountains—land that has no name on any map yet—and he is looking for someone to record the way. It is a plan with no set route and no guarantee of return, but he slowly takes in your workbench and the map spread across it, then looks at you with a serious expression. Now there is no one in the workshop but you, Ethan, and a story about to begin.