Ready-Or-Not

Elias came from an island nation in the North Sea, where the grassy hills rolled on until they turned to cliffs that tumbled into the hungry waters below. There were high peaks that were dusted with snow year round, and their evergreen slopes soon turned to the deciduous forests where Elias learned to hunt. The country is lost to history now, having reduced itself to ashes with civil wars and violent gangs soon after Elias left. The lost nation was quite out of touch with the rest of the world, a theocracy run by a King and his Council.  Though there was a castle and even knights in shining armor, His Majesty and his family were nothing mor