Chapter 2; Castle Krul Three years prior to arriving in Sandmoor Oric was still a slave. He could not remember the day he was captured and subjugated, It was entirely possible he was born into slavery. He couldn’t remember his parents; he didn’t even know their names. He felt he had a memory of Crosstree Rock, the isle of the great cats, from when he was little, but that may have only been a dream he felt was real. He didn’t recall a childhood except that of servitude. As little as he knew about himself, he knew even less about his own kind, and what little he did know his few friends had told him. All he really knew from his youth was Castle Krul. Castle Krul was in the far north east of the nation, overlooking the wealthy town of Krulacre. In centuries past there were many small kingdom

