Theme: the true objective of an adventurer is to teach

Story summary: Hide is a young musketeer. On his first mission, he stole the treasure of a vampire orc named Marbon. This made Marbon angry and made him poison Meredith city’s water supply. Bringing one of the deadliest pandemics in human history to the people in the city. Hide, in the middle of despair, seeing his people die by his own fault decides to do something, Marbon gives him a map and tell him that if he wants to save his people, he will have to come to his castle and fight for the antidote. Hide accepts.

Plot

Premise: After a war between humans and magic creatures, the world was left in ruins. The last humans live together in Meredith city. Where musketeers go outside in search of gold, metal, food or anything that helps the expansion of the city, including conquering smalls towns and enslaving the creatures in it.

Cast: Hide (main character) is a young musketeer who believes that adventure is only stealing treasures for glory. Marbon (main antagonist) is a vampire orc that cursed Meredith city.

Catalyst: After Hide stole the treasure, Marbon turns the water’ supply into poison. Making everyone sick except Hide. Then Marbon give him the choice to go into a quest to save his people and Hide accepts it.

Training sequence: Hide has a skill with the sword, however in this journey he will learn to survive on his own. While following the map, Hide finds traces of civilization before the war. Legends of humans and creatures used to bond together as adventurers. However, all of them had something in common, they wanted to explore, not find treasures.

Hurdles: On his quest, Hide goes to a small town conquered by the musketeers. When the enslaved creatures found out that the human’s city was dying, they revolt. Trying to kill every human including Hide.

Failure: When Hide finally arrives to the last point of the map, he notice that he came back to Meredith city again. Marbon appears and laughs at him, telling him that never had a castle, and all his journey was walking in circles. Hide in shock, devastated and exhausted doesn’t know what to do.

The climax: Finally Hide out of rage, challenge Marbon to a duel. If he wins, he will restore the city. Marbon just laughs at the idea but accepts anyway.

The lesson: During the fight, Hide doesn’t stand a change. Marbon bit him. Hide in pain and turning himself into a vampire (and possibly a slave of Marbon) remembers his journey. The ruins, the legends and starts to connect everything together. Marbon was an adventurer too that’s why he doesn’t have a castle and the old adventurers went to explore and to teach each other cultures, and not for treasures.

The denouement: When Hide said that, Marbon gets distracted and Hide stabbed him. But it leaves terrible wounded but doesn’t kill him. Hide forces Marbon to restore the city and his “vampirism”. Marbon does it and disappears. After the city was restore, Hide understands that there is more in adventure and just treasures and leaves the city in order to learn.

Jose Escobar

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