Continent: Aostra
Country: Avaloria
Fraction : Tenebria - Nustier House
Date: 29/4/331
The next day, I woke up early to go to work. When I finished, I met Lunim at my house to talk about the situation.
«Good morning, big brother.» said my sister as she saw me coming back.
«Don't call me that, Eimin. You still act like a child.»
In fact, she did not have a 20-year-old body type. Medium-length brown hair, deadly sticky green eyes. Fine lips and innocent smile. Soft skin and slender legs. Tiny hands and tender voice. My sister was the exact opposite of me.
«Can't I even call you "big brother"? Do you want me to call you "Goldora" like everyone else? Or do you want to give your sister a kindness for once?» she replied smiling. I can't say that seeing her happy bothered me, but she should have learned to be more serious sometimes.
«Stop acting like this. What I want to achieve cannot be achieved with care and kindness.» I answered.
She was aware that I wanted to change the nation, but I had not yet told her of my plan for revolt; I would have done so shortly.
At that moment, Lunim entered our house.
«Good morning, Eimin.» He kissed her hand and bent down a little.
«Can't you be as kind as Lunim? Good morning to you too.» He replied with a smile, then approached me.
We sat together at the table to discuss.
Although Lunim was not as tenacious and courageous as I, he was an excellent analytical mind for my group. He expressed himself in an indifferent and unprejudiced way. He was a great strategist.
«There is no reason to go to war. The act of the king is a real suicide for the kingdom. A real aim towards eternal glory. The only benefit we could draw from it is the resources of newly conquered territories, but I do not see why. If we enter into conflict, we should cut off relations with the whole of Aostra, so we will give up resources from other nations. It's a vicious circle, we won't be able to increase our benefits. On the other hand, the negative factors are disproportionately greater: poverty, famine, death of thousands of men, war, devastation, loss of resources. Even by mentioning them, one can see how this war is a massacre of human lives.» Lunim said, critically analyzing the dynamics of the continent. His entire study described this war as a very bad reality.
«As I thought, that bastard king believes himself a god capable of dominating an entire continent and, to do so, is ready to sacrifice the lives of thousands of men.» I answered more and more annoyed.
«So, Goldora, how do you think you can antagonize the four fractions of Avaloria, even managing to win them?» Lunim asked me. At this point, my sister also intervened, rising from the chair, laying her hands with her palm on the table:
«How? Brother, do you really want to antagonize all these people? Why? And then you're alone, you could never win.»
The concern painted on my sister's face was very evident.
However, I said:
«Eimin, if you do not believe in my cause, stay out of it. What I want is that bastard to bow down before me and accept defeat, so Avaloria will be saved.»
«Do you care for Avaloria to the point of doing such a thing?» Eimin yelled at me, rightly so.
I closed my eyes and turned my gaze, holding back my tears.
♦️
My sister and I come from the Nustier dynasty. I was the eldest, 30 years old, my sister was 20. When we were young, 13 years earlier, we lost our parents. That day I was working in my forge, I had Eimin under guard. When we came home, we found a note on the dirty table that occupied our dining room, this one marked:
Goldora, you're a strong boy. Take care of your sister. Eimin, don't worry, mom and dad will always be with you.
My sister still could not read, only I knew the meaning of those words. I never knew what happened to my parents, and I never cared to find it out. The next day, I told Eimin everything. She burst into a desperate cry. I restrained myself. What I regretted most was not that my parents had been lost, but that my sister had lost them. A 7-year-old girl cannot grow up without parents, even with a 17-year-old brother. For the first few weeks, she had trouble seeing life in color. I had to pretend to be a caring person, to prevent her from growing up as angry as me. After a while, when I took care of it alone, she came to me and said, hugging me:
«Brother, you are enough for me. Please don't leave me like they did.» I had to hold back my tears once more, so as not to show myself weak before her, otherwise even her only certainty would collapse.
So I said:
«I will not leave you alone. Whatever happens.»
She smiled at me, I failed to do so. Of this situation, probably, I suffered more than her.
♦️
What I wanted to fight for was not protecting Avaloria... I would have wanted to ensure a safe place to live for my sister, who had become a mother, a mother able to raise her children without disappearing overnight. I didn't feel right when she thought I was doing it for Avaloria, but how could she know I was doing it for her?
This side of me, however, does not emerge in my character. Not because I do not want to, I can not, I can not show myself weak before her.
Then, to Eimin's question, I replied:
«I have no interest in Avaloria. The bastard will come down from that place which is not his, and I will rule this nation of obedient sheep.»
My sister gave a worried look. How can I blame her... I was breaking the promise, leaving her alone. But it was all for her. I had no intention of abandoning her to this cruel world.
So Lunim intervened:
«Eimin, you know your brother is reckless, unfortunately we will not be able to change his mind. That's why I'm going to join him. If you must rule Avaloria, Goldora, you will not do it without me. But now tell me, how?»
I have to thank Lunim for what he did that day. He almost reassured my sister that he would be by my side.
«You will be my strategist. So you will tell me when, how and where to attack. However, I will decide the first step. The bastard will soon announce the location of the first attack. Most likely it will be on the front line between one of the fractions and the enemy territory. At that moment, we'll attack.» I said. My sister was not convinced. Lunim, on the other hand, was able to understand what Eimin was feeling, he also tried to hide his own feeling.
«Usually, between the declaration of war and the declaration of the first attack, whole months can pass. You will have to wait a little longer.» Lunim said, announcing what I was going to say.
«My war has already begun. In these months we will not stand still. We will train, develop an effective strategy, be ready to rebuild Avaloria under the name of Nustia.»