The Province of Nordland every year will only have three month where the climate is warm. For the rest of the year, the land itself is covered in snow and the wind itself is chill to the bone. As for winter in this land, it was so cold that the God Of Dawn, while capable of making the sun itself rise earlier, was not capable of bringing warm to this land, and those who follow the God Of Argriculture struggle to find a way for the otherwise fertile land of this place to yell crop. With this in mind, the food output of this place was just barely enough to feed the people.
Inside the town Uland, night was silence with snow-covered street and any light leave by the star was covered by the snow clogging the roof of every house. In this season, the sun come down very quickly, and at noon people has to come back to the town as quickly as possible. Those who are too slow has to worry about the many thing that plagued the land.
Bandit ...
Beastmen ...
The Norscan who came to rob the land un-announced at any time...
The Greenskin ...
The Undead ...
A black leather boots stepped on the steps of the city gate, making a squeaky sound. A man wearing black leather outfit and triangular appeared. The hat itself is pulled slow with alot of snow covering it. This person look tall and mighty, with a golden sword and warhammer on his back. The length of both weapon was very long covering half his height. His face is handsome, and always with a smile, he looks like a priest, but the look of his stern eye and the blood on his body. And the fact that he look very young, like a person that was less than 25 year old, the man is no priest.
He looked from side to side. There was no one on the road. There was no trace of any footprints on the snow on the mud road. He sighed slightly and saw the Guard at the gate, so he came forward and ask.
Ryan: "Excuse me, have you seen pale-face man wearing a high-top hat, a cloak, a outdated long-leg pants and black leather boots, these past two days?"
The Guard don't bother to answer, so he flashed them his badge the badge itself having a silver white wolf on it.
"Sorry for my isolence ! Sir Knight !" The guard saw the badge, subconsciously and physically bowed to the man: "Three days ago, there was such a man who came! He claimed to be Mr. Bart and a friend to our Lord so we let him go. I seen him go to the Southwest !"
"Mr. Bert? Oh, let me think about it. The situation must have been three days ago. A strange traveler rode into the town on a horse..." Despite his smiling the man eye is restless and looking straight at the guard.
" Then ... our loyal Town Guards came forward to ask, but the traveler took out a few silver coins and gave them to our loyal Town Guards. Showing his sincerity and our loyal Town Guards just nod and take the sincerity from the strange traveler ... no Mr.Bart sincerity ... right. ?"
The Guard immediately sweat, and the sweat itself quickly frozen. He whispered, "Sir Knight please forgive me, I must have been possessed by the Chaos God at that time, I will give you back the money, please spare me"
The man just sigh and tell the Guard just let him go inside the Town. ( Real bad move for a guard through, saying you has been possessed by a fucking Chaos God is the literally last thing you would do to escape execution by your superior )
" With the current rationing situation where soldier can only fill their belly but doesn't have much spare food. Unless you're breaking major military order, they will not coming after you thing like taking small bribe was nothing major. A seasoned Deamonhunter like Bart was doing it to kept himself away from many problem in the road at the cost of few spare silver coin. "
"But I don't thing I can't doing it" the man looking into the sky. He whispered to himself
"Southwest, Mr.Bart want to go to the dock huh ... "
"Anyway ... I need to find a place to rest, the Wilderness is just too dangerous."
The man came to a bar he sit down while the bard was singing about a new Nordland hero called "Ryan Of The Warhammer". Then on his hand, a golden band glown and a stern voice came from it.
"Lion, did you located Bart."
P/S: I has to skip a long but somewhat meaningless scene in the bar.