1 I wish you peace
The sky was clear, filled with stars, and the moon was full, illuminating the night. Despite that scenery the smell of blood and smoke permeates through the air.
A man glares at the figure infront of him, a woman riding a horse bow and arrow on hand. Her hair red like the sunset and eyes clear blue as the sea. The clothes she's wearing are tattered and her skin bruised.
"Do you think you'll be able to escape?! my army will sweep through the plains and your kingdom will be no more!"
The man rages, his eyes seem to be pleading. How can such a woman exist, he desire for her death, with her words and skills in war she struck a great blow to his army. How great could that kingdom that has taught this woman such mastery! His age being close to her, he felt like beating the faces of all his mentors who failed to teach him better strategies.
Despite her defeat, that was only possible through treachery. He Imprisoned her with her comrades, have her watch them killed, and forced her to serve him, the empires's prince! Her eyes never showed weakness. She waited her time, she knew a chance of escape will come.
"Nasir"
The woman spoke his name, without honorific. How impudent!
"The one eyed prince...how funny that would be"
She continued. Before he could even answer an arrow stabbed his left eye. He fell to the ground grasping his face, he raised his head staring as her sillouette disappear, the clouds hiding the moon.
"Don't give chase! Eula Hayes! I will personally murder you! Your family! All of them! No ancestor, No descendant, will be left alive!" He sputtered fighting with the pain as he fainted.
Year 1450, Altan empire conquers the Merian kingdom past the plains of Dral. The Hayes, a prominent noble family of the Merian kingdom were all executed, no women nor children were spared, all their land pillaged and their castles burned. The Merian royal family accepts defeat and vows loyalty to the Altan empire. The king gives one of his daughter as peace offering, she becomes part of Nasir's harem. His harem, a collection of all the princess' from the kingdoms he has conquered.
And on year 1453 Nasir returns to Altan empires capital with his own army far larger than the emperor's army, and demands for the throne. The emperor, had no other choice, as the current crown prince have no such military power. And so he gives the throne to Nasir. Nasir becomes emperor, and all those who tried to oppose him were executed. In this return He brought with him his harem. Having 20 concubines with no Empress the inner court is a mess. Women filled with greed, pride, and envy, fighting for the position as Empress, to become mother of the future emperor, struggle for Nasir's approval. Assassinations of princes and princesses are not uncommon, people of the empire sees it as a normal political struggle, afterall, no one desires for a future leader who is easily killed and fooled.
Nasir Altan a great ruler, who made the empire prosper as well as the kingdom he has conquered. Brings end to the empires' conquest and peace to the land. Truly the greatest emperor of this century...
"What bullshit!"
A woman slams a book entitled Nasir Altan the Great and throws it outside the window of the carriage. On her lap is a child who squirmed in his sleep. The woman, who seems to be his mother caresses the child's cheek softly.
"It's ok, Aedan, my little falcon." She whispers to him. The boy grasps his mother's hand and slowly went back to sleep.
Outside the window of the carriage are fields of golden wheat, soon it would be harvest time. The woman inhales deeply as a calm breeze passes by inside the carriage. She combs her red hair with her free hand.
"Nasir the one eyed emperor...I should have told him that." She mumbled to herself.
