It is a clear and peaceful day all over Thaloria, from the hot and scorching sands of Solara Province, down to the cold and wintry Frostmark Province.
But beneath the seemingly calm, and peaceful facade, an undercurrent of tension, uncertainty and fear can be felt, as the rich and the middle class citizens of Thaloria can be seen panic-buying stocks of food, drinks, medicine, clothes, pens, and paper to hoard from merchant guilds all over Thaloria, save for Frostmark Province, with rumors of a civil war and rumors of attempts on the life of the king spreading like wildfire, from the the lips of the highborn down to the commoners.
The wealthy and middle class commoners starts hiring sellswords, and hedge knights in an attempt to keep themselves safe, knowing full well that when a civil
