**Echalera** lives in Garontor village, which is located within the Western Empire. She is a equine veterinarian, who spends her days taking care of her sick mother **Carinila**, and watching over her two bratty teenage siblings: **Alea** and **Mylos**. By all means, **Echalera** lives a peaceful life.
Although, her older brother **Mattis** has joined **Garios** as a soldier, and recently he’s been stationed at the Western Empire’s capital of Zeonica. Which is a beautiful city on the sitting on a coastline.
Compared to that, **Echalera’s** life here in the village seems pretty mundane. *However she does have this one unique trait…*
  **Echalera** seems to share a very uncanny resemblance with a missing noble women named **Haldaea**.
One day **Echalera** is even unknowingly mistaken by some caravanners to be **Haldaea** in hiding.
The caravanners return to the antagonist, a mercenary named **Monyr**, whose been looking for **Haldaea**. He decides to track this “**Echalera**” down, so **Monyr** rides out with with his warband, which includes a bald fellow and a man with a scar on his left-cheek.
That same night **Echalera’s** father **Phelenos** is poaching when he runs across the warband in a forest.
  Being caught the father tries to flee, but he’s ultimately forced to kill one of them to make it work.
Upon returning to Garontor village, covered in blood, the family gets exiled. They decide to flee to Zeonica and live with **Mattis**.
There it’s decided that they can’t stay in the Western Empire, they’ll have to cross the border to the Southern Empire, but after reaching Onica village they question their choice.
  The village is eerily deserted — entirely abandoned — except for one stubborn inn keeper, who tells **Echalera** that **Rhagaea**’s truce with **Garios** had just ended that morning.
Therefore the Southern Empire could attack any moment, with Onica village being the first conquered! To that **Mattis** suggests they return to Zeonica, but just then **Monyr** catches up to them.
  **Monyr** enters the inn, behind him is the bald man and the other with the scarred-cheek. **Monyr** takes one good look at **Echalera**, *and he sees through the similarities…* **Haldaea’s** eyes were greyish, she was slightly taller, and would be older now. It’s not her, **Monyr** declares, but just as he goes to leave, the bald man and scarred one eye him expectantly. He gives them a nod, as in — do what you want with the them — **Monyr** leaves.
  As **Echalera** and **Mattis** fight to survive at the inn, **Alea** and **Mylos** get dragged away by the bald man. Trying to save them, **Phelenos** and **Carinila** are killed by the bald one’s men. To which the man with the scar on his cheek curses the bald one, saying the parents could’ve been ransomed for something. The bald man mutters something and gives him an irritated look. Despite the horror, and coldness **Echalera** is feeling, she hears the bald man’s response: “Oh?” Tch! “Don’t you start with the sheep sheering thing again, **Radagos**.” After hearing that name, **Echalera** repeats it to herself. Over and over while hiding behind Mattis. Outside, a pattering sound cuts through all the chaos. They’re hooves — hundreds of them.
  **Rhagaea’s** forces swoop down on the warband, killing many, but man with the scar on his cheek and the bald man escape. The latter taking **Mylos** and **Alea** with him.
Now silent — **Rhagaea** calls for anyone still inside the inn to step out, and doing so is the inn keeper along with **Mattis** and **Echalera** behind him, who’re carrying **Carinila** and **Phelenos** outside with them.
Seeing **Mattis’** Western Empire colors, the soldiers immediately disarm and detain him. **Rhagaea** eyes **Echalera** and starts by saying how she expected to find her daughter, **Ira**, here.
  Heavens know, **Ira** tends to get ahead of herself and fly into the fray, but she didn’t expect **Ira** would actually follow her instruction for once. *More yet* — **Rhagaea** didn’t expect to find the long missing **Haldaea**. **Echalera** is tempted to correct her but with **Mylos** and **Alea** in kidnapped, now’s hardly the time. Unless **Echalera** does something, they could die. **Echalera** merely bites her tongue.
  **Rhagaea** points out how exhausted **Haldaea** must be. Maybe she’d like to rest up at Poros, there they could give her two servants a proper burial. **Echalera** accepts and one of **Rhagaea’s** soldiers tosses **Mattis** on his horse like a sack of flour and another gives **Echalera** her own.
  As **Echalera** trots alongside **Rhagaea’s** forces to Poros, she tries recalling any details that might help her track down her parent’s killers and sibling’s kidnappers. She only has one clue: *Radagos…*
> Playing at the end of the prologue act would be the main theme, below ↓
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> Imagine this.
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> “The camera zooms out on Echalera, slowly revealing Calradia.”
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> “Then, between 0:09 > < 0:10, the title card would drop.”
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> “**Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord**”
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