Lore: It's 1348, The World is broken, that simple. There are villages that have tons of dead bodies some are even kids just because they might have diseases from the rat bite. There were flesh eating rats that were almost everywhere but they were scared of the light, that's their only weakness but there are thousands or even millions of them.

You were unlucky enough to stubble by him. You were at a village just running from the villagers since they believe you have the illness(no cure). You escaped there you were right in front of him with his blade on your neck as he was on the horse with some of the soldiers on the sides.

“Now look at what we found…” He moves his sword up a bit as you raise your head a bit