The Hundred Years War, a conflict that had last for over one hundred years between the Elvas – Dwarf Alliance, the Downers – Dragon Folks Alliance and the Orcs, created countless death, suffering and many atrocities from three side. The war dragging on into a stalemate, all three sides still twirling in the endless circler of bloodshed, sacrifice countless of soldier's life, yet none can have an upper hand over other. But two years ago, after days and years of stagnation, the Dragon – Downers Alliance's force lead by Varlann Empire, had a break through, a new magic has given them a major victory over the Elvas at the siege of Schivelon, grand citadel of the Elvas in the Emerald Forest. With this new "weapon" the stalemate broke, and the scale of power tilted toward the Dragon – Downers Alliance, not only that is also make the Orcs have to think twice before they take any action.
With that new magic, it will be easy for Emperor Tu to wipe out any force on the battlefield but strangely he did not. Instead, Emperor Tu and his second son Crown Prince Suk Lam, with the help of a general from the Elvas side, lady Derthelin, together they had appealed and urged to three side to cease all hostility and come together in a peace talks, to stop the suffering and bloodshed of the conflict that had plague the continent for the past century. After two years of effort, the peace talk finally will be held at Maseiron, a neutral free city of the Uppers, and Lord Suk Toa had been choosing to be Varlann Empire's representative. But three weeks after Lord Suk Toa and the envoys departure for the peace talk, they disappeared, the messenger pigeons, carry the routine report about the envoy progress through their rest stops, had stopped flying to the capital. When Varlann contact with the Elvas through General Derthelin, they learned that the Elvas side had not met Lord Suk Toa's envoys. This created an uproar in Varlann's court, those who do not favour the peace talk immediately concludes that Lord Suk Toa must have been harmed by the Elvas, and kept pressing Emperor Tu to take retaliation. With the day of the peace talk is drawing near, Emperor Tu must look to this matter himself. An absolute order had been issued by Emperor Tu to all his official, that, all of Varlann's forces will hold their position, and will not have any move without his approval, those who act against his order will be put to death on the spot, regardless one's position or social status. Then with his second son Crown Prince Suk Lam, set out to find Lord Suk Toa missing envoys.
For the past week, they had follow the convoy's route and asking folks along the road with no significant find nor anything abnormal that fail to be mention in the reports had been sent back to Fon Chu. After a day of sailing upstream the river, they arrived at Than Hua city, a small city on the bank of Kao Ren Lake and where the last routine report had been sent. After met the city's mayor, they learned that the convoy has took a rest stop in Than Hua, one week ago, and according to the mayor, the convoy have to change their course when they about to head out to the next stop, Lui Tsuy city on the northern bank of Kao Ren Lake, instead of crossing the lake by boat they switched to land route, due to a major storm is raging on the lake at that time.
The land route from Than Hua to Lui Tsuy, follow along Kao Ren Lake's bank, and cross the eastern end of the Eastern Tar'veen sierra through a difficult mountain pass. Maybe something had happened when they crossing the pass? With that new lead, they changed course in the next morning, Emperor Tu with his son and 100 Brocaded Cloak Guards, follows their new course on that empty road along the lake. Because crossing the lake via boat is the easiest and conveniences way, so the road is rarely being use, nor being maintain properly. The road was badly degraded, landslides gone unclean, falling trees, cracks and potholes that big as a carriage are littered everywhere. Causing their searching effort progress sluggishly, along the road also devoid of any sight of civilization, so they cannot ask for any information either. They searching for the whole day, hoping for some sight of the missing envoy. When late noon arrived, the search party stop before a big fallen tree on the roadside, the reason for their stop is the ruckus causing by a bunches of Black Back Tuves Vultures and a large murder of White Neck Crows fighting over a carcass. The big vultures devouring the carcass, and occasionally spreading their giant wings with a claw on the tip, screaming to chase off those Crows who trying to steal a piece of meat for themselves.
Emperor Tu and Crown Prince Lam quickly realized the carcass those scavengers are fighting over for is a human carcass. The Brocade Cloak Guards get off their velelis to chase away the scavenger, while they doing that Crown Prince Lam noticed some strange behaviors of those scavenger. Normally those scavengers will fly off if interrupted by human, but these Tuves Vultures and Crows are not, they walk wonkily like a drunker, some running like a headless Kuuk and suddenly drop dead, while some are just keep flapping their wings uncontrollingly, screaming nonstop, and kept spinning round and round at where they stand. And some went hyper-aggressive, charging at the Brocade Cloak Guards, forcing the guards to kill them.