1.   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…
2.   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.
3.   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.
4.   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.
5.   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.
6.   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.
7.   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.
8.   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.
9.   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.
10.   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…
END OF PROLOGUE
Playing at the end would be the main theme, below ↓
**Imagine this.**
“The camera zooms out on Echalera, slowly revealing Calradia.”
“Then, between 0:09 > < 0:10, the title card would drop.”
> “**Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord**”
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