My first memory might as well have been created by my own imagination. That’s how young I was back then. I was within a building made out of cold marble, my neck felt tight as if something was pressing down on it. In front of me, there was this man; shoulder long black hair, a sharp face and an expression as if he had been chewing on dirt, while looking at me. His shoulders were broad and he seemed endlessly tall while looking down at me. I changed gazes between him towering over me and the woman lying there on the ground. She had blonde hair, red eyes and pointy ears, her expression when looking at me made me happy. She stretched out a hand toward me and I grabbed it. She grazed over my fingers and laughed slightly. In the end she told me those three last words:

<<I love you>>, and stopped looking at me. She was looking at the ceiling, not moving, not breathing, letting go of my hand.

I don’t understand what is going on, so I try to keep my hold on her hand but then I am punched by the man, who is standing before me. It hurts.

I look up at the man, tears welling up in my eyes, only to see him staring down at me with a hateful grimace. He hated me.

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Year 316-324 RPT: The 8-year war between the nations of Estica, Ayrilia and Dondonpa has taken place. The country of Ayrilia has accused the two neighboring countries of inhumane conduct and declared the necessity of a military solution to the problem. Ayrilia was in a geographical disadvantage, since Estica is located to the north from it, while Dondonpa is facing its southern boarders. Furthermore, the two allied countries have been able to negotiate a non-aggression treaty with their other neighboring countries. This treaty included limited trade with all countries involved in the war until after the conflict was finished as well as a closing of the trade routes through the neighboring kingdoms toward the countries in question.

The main benefactor of this treaty was the 2-country alliance of Estica and Dondonpa, since the treaty did not block the previously established trade route between the two countries as well as trade routes with the country of Ylvia, an economic ally of Estica. This meant that they had an economically stable flow of goods and wares, while Ayrilia could only trade with a single country, the country of Rabakda. Rabakda was the only country that did not stop trading with its allying country and through this alliance as well as the Ayrilian trading organization, the Alpata-Guild. Through their own economic power and their strong military, Ayrilia fought an 8-year long war against the two countries and was in a surprisingly advantageous position towards the end of the war. Nevertheless, the country had underestimated the economic strain on itself and under some mediation through neutrally inclined countries as well as some political compromising, the three countries have formed a temporary peace-treaty that lasts us until today.

The Estican and Dondonpan reigning faction compromised a minimum amount of humane rights to the people as well as those treated under the social standing of slaves.

Furthermore, they relented to the regular supervision through a committee of supervision, that was created through a coalition of 10 neutrally inclined countries as well as Ayrilia.

In exchange Ayrilia had to tribute them an amount of natural resources, that was separately agreed upon by the countries, as a price for the inner-political changes of the two countries.

Additionally, as a price for starting a war, that endangered the Estican and Dondonpan civilization, the Ayrilian War-slaves were not returned to their home country.

This point brought a lot of wrath from the Ayrilian royal faction, however the Esticans argued, that this should naturally not be that much of a degradation for the country, since they did just adapt a new policy in regards to treatment of the enslaved social-class. In the end, the treaty was accepted and a temporary peace has entered our countries. I sincerely pray to the spirits of peace and stability for them to hold their protective hand over our countries.

An excerpt of the book “Political Nuances of Ayrilia and it’s Neighboring Countries ” by the highly esteemed politician Raga Bloomroot.

In short, a war between the three countries of Ayrilia, Dondonpa and Estica has resulted in the social standing of slaves to be improved for the cost of the prisoners of war being degraded into permanent slaves. One such family, that was given over as a result of the father becoming a slave was the Ashenwald family consisting of Mada and Rem Ashenwald including their unborn baby, who had yet to get a proper name.

Because the baby has been born into slavery under Estican rule, the naming rights were given to their respective masters. In this case, one of the elders of the Blueseva-family decided on the name Imogyeran meaning an egg with untapped potential as the name for the now born child.

It was within Carcera, a city of Estica. Imogyeran’s parents had a mixed reaction to someone else naming their own child:

His mother Rem was simply happy that he would be able to survive and she was the one, that took over the young baby’s nurturing until he passed state of being an infant.

It was his father, who was the problem. Mada Ashenwald has been born into the well-off Ashenwald family and was raised in a very fundamentalist way, which is why his pride in his own country and beliefs is incredibly strong.

In his family tradition, naming a child should be decided by the father of the family. The current situation of him being forced to accept an unchangeable reality was simply unacceptable to him. He decided to rebel multiple times and was punished accordingly, which in the end also extended to his wife and child, when his behavior got too far out of hand.

Nonetheless, he kept insisting his silly charade, as it was perhaps the only thing he had to keep himself alive on. In secrecy, he decided on naming the child ‘Imogyeran’ as ‘Pasch’, much to his wife’s displeasure. Unlike him, who insisted on bringing her and their son in danger, Rem’s goal was simply to hold out and rear her child into a fine adult. It was her belief, that as long as they held their heads down now, there would eventually come a time, when they could walk proudly again, as normal citizens of Ayrilia. That belief often had her clashing with her husband over the future of their son.

But that belief was sadly never fulfilled.

The time was May 15^th year 328 RPT, within the servant’s quarters of the main mansion from the Blueseva-family. Imogyeran had just turned 3-years-old and his mother gave him a small birthday party. She had asked for permission from their new master, Sir Frutto, to get a few utensils for her son’s birthday party, but her permission was denied.

Regardless of their allowance, Rem wasn’t the kind of person to just accept that decision that easily.

As one of the attendants for the youngest daughter of the house, she utilized a moment, where no one was looking, and grabbed a bunch of sweets from the daughter’s personal reserves and gave it to her son on his birthday. The young boy was barely at the age of roughly understanding his parents words and occasionally blabbering a somewhat coherent sentence.

For his age, he was a relatively slow learner, but his mother didn’t care. Instead she gave him all the affection she could in the place of her fundamentalist husband, resulting in the child having had a decently happy upbringing until now, considering her situation. When he ate the sweets, she had presented him, the young boy flashed a bright smile that from one ear to another. Everything seemed to go smoothly, but at some point something went wrong.

During their small celebration party, Rem has called her son “Imogyeran”, the name that he has been given as a slave, as opposed to “Pasch”, the name he was supposed to bear according to his father. Maybe it was this scene, that pushed him over the edge, but suddenly Mada went berserk. The next scene was one, that no one was able to remember afterwards, since only the young boy and the angry father were there to witness the scene at that time. The nobles in the mansion only heard a myriad of screams from different people and hurriedly called out to their security to assess the potential danger and, if necessary, eliminate it.

This is a report, that one of the guards gave to his master about what happened:

-The location was in the western bedroom for our house-slaves

-When we arrived there, there were three people inside the room:

one male adult servant, his young son and the corpse of his wife

-The adult male has give the following witness statement:

His wife tried stealing food from the noble’s daughter and eating it for her own pleasure.

When found out by her son, she apparently started beating him up for several minutes, which the son has confirmed after we interrogated him.

-Afterward the father had to intervene to save his son from being hurt any further from her and in accordance for the crime of stealing from their master’s food, he punished her by death.

-The father hopes, that his wife’s foolish mistake will not extend to a punishment for them, who have always been grateful for the care they have been given.

-The son was in a heavily injured state, but he did confirm the father’s statement and was then carried to the infirmary

This concludes the report of that night’s incident.