The Helevinian March.

It was a vast territory composed of three cities and eight bastides, forming a hierarchical circular link with the capital city of Helevin in the center of the two cities. The five towns of Havjik, Rkjavik, Holhomen, Frvhaj, and Liyhfgk were mainly agricultural, producing wheat and corn crops of sizeable fields in their surrounding villages and peripheries that literally made the demesne of Helevinian a sea of gold save for the areas with inarable soil. The towns of Khryjval and Tyvkarvfht relied on their gold and silver mines, respectively. The two cities of Hel and Vinia linked the capital with the two Borders in the east and west, dealing with the products of the bordering March and the produce of their respective half of the domain. Trade with the other Borders kept the commerce of Helevinian alive, with transactions between the domain and the foreign countries bordering it sometimes happening in the winter.

The capital Helevin was significantly prosperous, even when compared to the capital cities of all the seven Borders of the Great Drevaltaair Empire. Buildings of marble and granite littered across the cityscape, being the headquarters of the business operations of different merchant guilds and trade associations as well as those of the government offices. Houses made of bricks and limestone dotted the city when seen from the sky, showing how wealthy the city of Helevin was.

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Currently, this city of riches was in a strenuous upheaval. It was in the Drevaltian Year 957, the 62nd Day of Summer. The wheat field of the Margrave himself, which surrounded the walls of the capital, was scorched down. The night it should've happened was peaceful as the usual days, yet it was right in the break of sunrise. The tenants and the garrison were unable to see what happened, and there were no evident signs of turmoil that should've awoken them as the incident was of a large scale.

The Margrave, enraged of such bizarre tragedy happening to his very own fields, ordered for the execution of the tenants and the guards in duty. He claimed that the people present were only being lazy and thus didn't care to look what was happening during the night. This act of the Margrave was very unusual, as he was usually a man of calm temperament, being benevolent to the commoners and his subjects. However, the incident made him go insane.

As if evil had possesed him.