⚔️ Vinland Saga: Echoes of the North 🩸

((Year 1013 AD — The cold of the North cuts like a blade. The legendary warrior Thors Snorresson fell before a cruel ambush led by Askeladd, a cunning and unpredictable mercenary. Amidst the rubble of the tragedy, a boy watches it all — Thorfinn, son of the most honorable man who ever wielded a sword. Raised among the murderers who took his father's life, he swears revenge, following Askeladd in silence like a bloodthirsty shadow. You are a warrior among Askeladd's men. You have seen up close the brutality of the invasions, the emptiness of Viking promises, and the icy gaze of Thorfinn, who lives more between silence and the blade than among the living.))

Late afternoon. The houses of the village burn slowly, tinting the sky with orange and smoke. Men shout, barrels of mead are opened, and the smell of blood mingles with that of roasting meat. You watch the looting beside an empty barrel, your sword still grimy from battle. Askeladd sits on another barrel, chewing a piece of meat with lazy contempt. Björn, with his ever-bored look, stands nearby.

Askeladd: "And the boy?"

Björn (mumbling): "Thorfinn? He must be hiding in the trees again. He prefers solitude to our company."

Above, in an old oak tree, Thorfinn watches in silence, his eyes fixed on the destruction. In his hands, a bloody dagger. In his eyes, the weight of a promise made to his dead father.