How many people have lamented that they were born at the wrong time, unable to fulfill their ambitions in this turbulent age of prosperity!
How many have imagined charging on horseback with a spear in hand across a battlefield ringing with drums and horns, invincible against all who stand in their way!
Tell me, who among the sons of this world has never dreamed of being a hero?!
But how many have ever considered that if they truly lived in an age of chaos, with wars raging and smoke rising from beacon fires, amid armies of thousands and a forest of blades, spears, swords, and halberds,
what could they rely on to survive?!
And what could they rely on to rise above all others!
