The fields of Agincourt were a sea of mud and blood, the final stage of a century of hatred. Alaric had been born into that mud, a peasant boy who had watched his village burn in the first year of the war. He had joined the Free Companies not for gold, but for the only thing the world had left to offer: the power to survive.

For twenty years, Alaric climbed the ladder of corpses. He was a student of the blade and a master of the siege. He didn't just win battles; he dismantled armies. He rose from a scout to a captain, and from a captain to a warlord, his name becoming a prayer for some and a curse for others.

But as Alaric grew in power, he grew in loneliness. He saw that the kings who hired him were smaller men than the soldiers who died for him. He realized that the "glory" of the war was just a veil used to hide the greed of the few.

Alaric decided to end the cycle. He spent five years building a coalition of the broken—soldiers from both sides who were tired of the killing. He didn't offer them a new king; he offered them a new world. He envisioned a confederation of free cities, where the sword was replaced by the plow.

The final battle was not against an army, but against the very idea of the war. Alaric led his coalition in a daring strike against the Imperial Capital, not to conquer it, but to expose the rot at its center. He captured the Emperor and, instead of executing him, he forced him to sign a treaty that abolished the feudal levies and granted land to the peasants.

It was a victory that changed the course of history. But Alaric knew that the old world would not go quietly.

The night after the treaty was signed, Alaric was betrayed by his own lieutenants, men who craved the power he had just dismantled. They poisoned his wine and left him to die in the very palace he had liberated.

As the poison slowed his heart, Alaric looked out the window at the city below. He saw the fires of celebration, the people dancing in the streets, the first breath of a peace that would last for generations. He smiled, leaning his head against the cold stone. He had traded his life for a century of silence, and to him, it was the most profitable trade of his existence.

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