What is power?
Is it the ability to command others? The capacity to influence the state of affairs of an entire populace? The authority to cause people to bend to your will?
Alaric had all of that as the child of a Baron, having two powerful parents who doted on him.
He was a golden boy!
In his Household and the entire Barony, no one could tell him what to do.
Everyone knew who his parents were!
The Baron and his wife wielded unimaginable control! All bowed before them, and as their son, he enjoyed all the benefits—wielding what he considered as immeasurable power.
But… one day…
"W-we greet the Earl!"
… He watched his seemingly invincible parents bow before a much more powerful figure.
—An Earl!
His worldview was shattered at that moment.
The Baron had power?
What power?
All of his parents' power was instantly snuffed out by a higher authority.
