My name is Alexander Yellowhorn and my story starts at the young age of four, let me give you some insight I'm of the noble clan Yellowhorn were known for being part of the kings council giving us sway over many other nobles, I'm the third son and the 4th child overall I have 7 siblings despite my age and those are just the ones acknowledged as family who knows how many illegitimate siblings I have, my father had many affairs, I was forced to grow up fast due to my position, however due to my lack of affinity for great swords I am considered a disappointment to my father and as such I am barely even acknowledged as family to him, however that's different to my older siblings.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Ready or not here I come" said my elder sister
we were playing hide and seek, due to the vast land of my home we had sealed off much of it to make it fair the only places open to use were our bedrooms and the hall outside them, I was hiding under my bed, my sister came into my room she looked around, checking my wardrobes, my personal bathroom, my bed and my drawers however she never once though off under the bed, in retrospect it makes sense she was my elder sister she was just pretending to not find me, in this game were also my 3 elder brothers one of them being eight and two being seven they were each at break from school and far stronger than me despite my training, the twins had been on 2 trips to the dungeons and my oldest brother had been on 3, my elder sister was the oldest of us being ten, however my oldest brother was the heir because for some reason I don't understand women cant be acknowledged as heirs, despite this my compassionate and loving sister always tried her hardest to get stronger and whenever asked why her only response would be,
"That's a secret!"
The game went on she found all three of my brothers and the way we played it that made them on her side and one of the twins later found me under my bed,
"Caught you! Did you think you were sneaky?" he said
"I-I was sneaky, sis couldn't find me!"
This was the last day of their break the next day they would all be going on a joint year trip to a Dungeon and they wouldn't let me forget and before I knew it the next day rolled by we were outside saying our farewells to each other, I was sobbing my eyes out having to see them go and i didn't know why but it felt like this would be the last time I would see them
"Don't worry about us" said my sister
"ye we're strong" said the twins in unison
"trust me little bro, I'll always come back, you cant get rid of us" said my oldest brother
and then they all went off in the wagon back to school.
3 days later
there was a knock at the door, I still hear that dreaded knock in my dreams, one of the maids had opened the door and there was a mage he asked for an audience with the family and swore it was important he saw me and I could say that he immediately felt immense guilt, and having seen that I immediately felt immensely nauseous I didn't know what but I knew something had happened, my father called him in and I was told to go with him, we ended up in my father study when he had asked
"so, why have you called my greatness into a meeting with you"
"I'm the staff in-charge of keeping you children safe during the dungeon an-"
"and so what, here to give me details on there protection, I don't care, unless this is important leave"
"sir, I'm so so so sorry but t-t-there dead"
"What?" my father said "including the heir?"
all the mage could do is nod
"please leave me and my family to, grieve."
and the mage left, I've never seen him since
"well, I guess that makes you the heir, boy, your lucky day has come"
"W-what, my brothers and sister are dead and that's all you care for"
"I do not care for those weak brats, do not disappointment me"
I left and I started to receive many luxuries but I never cared nor did I want them all I truly wanted was my siblings back I was in despair for multiple years and that all changed with one sentence.
"are you my dormmate? Nice to meet you I'm Kon Whiteblood just call me Kon"