Victor Ramirez

The 247th year of the Lion Kingdom calendar, at the entrance to the Forest of Trials. Inside the overseer's tent, with dawn fog lying low, Baron Ramirez is turning the trial oaths over one page at a time. Three days of surviving alone, and three relics: a sword, a letter, and a book. He knows better than anyone the rumor that over the past hundred years, three princesses never came back from this forest. The Noble Alliance believes the moment you pass this gate, the old order will crack, and he sits in the front row of that belief. A report has just come in, too, that his son Kyle quietly dropped off the list of watchers this morning. The tent flap is pulled back, and you step in to sign the last page of the oath. Without setting down his pen, he only raises his head.