At the northernmost tip of the Suno Plain is a series of mountain ranges that separate the Swadia hinterland from the North Sea Plains. The mountain range stretches from the tip of the Tiha Peninsula to the Gelberg Pass, where the mountain range gradually extends into the land, forming hilly terrains. The hills vanished over the Jaken Plains, leaving an endless stretch of river beach crashing plains.

The first Nord ship was blown to the shores of the North Sea by a storm many years ago. There, they saw some wealthy undefended settlements of Svadia. The Nords paid the Swadia to repair their ships, and they found that the shipbuilding industry in Swadia was very underdeveloped, and the unified Svadia continent at that time was completely devoid of pressure from the sea and the impetus to develop a navy.

Ever since the first Nord ship sailed away from the gray coast of the North Sea, the suffering of the North Sea began. Groups of Nords sailed across the vast sea to the North Sea, where they first prayed for help from the Swadians, who regarded them as foreign submitters and assigned them special settlements. For the first few decades, the Nords and Swadians were at peace. For the Swadians, the North Sea is a poor land full of swamps, while for the Nords, it is a warmer and richer settlement than their homeland. Over the decades, the Nords took root here, and the Nord populace exploited the resources of the North Sea, with a number of Nord settlements popping up on the edge of Swadian towns, and in the decade before the Civil War, the Nord population surpassed the Swadians in the North Sea. The cabinet of the former kings of Swadia was worried about these immigrants of unknown origin. He wrote to General Tihadis Swadia to take over several port cities of the Nords in the North Sea, restricting the Nord's unbridled immigration. During those years, contradictions between the Nords and the Svadians began to accumulate. Nine years before the Swadia Civil War, there was the famous Migrant Population Incident, in which 17 Nord migrants who had been kept out of the landing site by the Svadias starved to death on ships. This provoked the resentment of the Nord Commanders, who paid the same or more taxes than the Swadians, but were always treated as second-class citizens.

They began to refuse to cooperate with the Swadians, and with an iron fist they took back four of the six port cities, reopening the doors of the Nord to emigration. Gone is the warm atmosphere of ethnic coexistence that existed in the past along the coast of the North Sea, and now there is no communication between the villages and cities of the Nordians and the Swadians, and disputes over land often erupt.

General Tiha led 1,000 soldiers to occupy the new Nord-built city of Gothas, expelling the Nordic commanders and ordering them to limit the number of immigrants to 1,000 per year. The consequences of such atrocities were so bad that the Swadia government was alienated. The Nord revolt intensified, and the Nord navy of fishermen and farmers blockaded the coast of Tiha, and even some solitary ships attacked the Imperial naval port in Paravon. This provocation aroused the displeasure of the former king, who severely rebuked the incompetence of the Beihai general.

The Beihai general had lost the upper hand in several battles with the Nords, and he had heard that the Nord leader was preparing to send an envoy to Palauven to appeal to the king. This frightened the Beihai general, who himself knew best what the Beihai army was doing locally. If these things were known to the Empire, his future would have been ruined.

He then wrote a mild letter, which his clerk had transcribe dozens of copies and send to the chiefs of the various Nord settlements. It was hoped that they would go to Gothas for a meeting to negotiate the division of the North Sea land, the release of Nord rights, and so on. At the end of the letter, General Beihai expressed regret over the series of conflicts in recent years and the memory of those who died in those conflicts.

Finally, two months later, thirty-seven Nord lords attended a meeting held by the North Sea generals.

The council came to be known to the Nords as the "Council of Scars", and thirty-six of the thirty-seven Nord leaders were put to death and hung from the gates of Gothas. Then the gates of the city were put under siege, and the soldiers searched for the Nord lord who had escaped.

Soon after, Tiha announced that all 37 lords who had attempted rebellion had been executed. Subsequently, the troops transferred from the interior of Svadia expelled the families of the former lords in the Nord settlement, and the newly divided lords of Svadia rejoiced in their fiefdoms. Most of these lords live in the central city, they never ask about the livelihood of the people in the territory, they only do one thing, increase taxes, increase taxes, increase taxes.

The surviving lord hid in an empty barrel at a distillery.

Gothas is a centre for the export of marsh wine, and the wineries here are built next to the marina. In order to facilitate transportation, there are some dug water tanks in the warehouse where the wine is stored, which leads directly to the dock. After the wine has been made and sealed into the barrels, the barrels are thrown into the tank, and the current washes the barrels to the docks and places them in the watery fence, where workers check the number of barrels and load them onto the transport ship.

A Nord worker and a few people twisted a barrel with a winch, he found that the barrel was particularly light, he thought that the winery was short of two pounds, so he angrily pulled out the nails of the barrel, pried open the lid of the barrel with an iron skewer, and saw a man with a haggard face inside.

The Nord worker was taken aback and asked who he was.

This man was the first Nord king. At that time, the king of Nord was exhausted and discouraged.

He said, "I am the lord of Vizan. Civilians, either go and denounce me and get your reward of dozens of dinars; Either you close the lid and wait for me to lead you to drive away the brutes of Svadia. ”

The worker didn't say a word, turned and left.

The future King Nord curled up in an empty barrel, ready to wait, waiting for the worker to bring the pickets. But the man brought a jug of fine marsh wine, two loaves of bread, and twelve eggs, and a bag of dried plums.

He told the lord of Vizan to remain silent. Then he started nailing the bucket and knocked out a small hole in the bucket with his head to ventilate.

When the ship arrived at the Wocheze, which was then the Free City, the workers took advantage of the darkness to drop the future King Nord off the ship. The drunken man, as he disappeared into the dark alley of the car, turned back and asked the worker's name, and the Nord man said, "I am a winemaker, and I was before I came to this land." I hope that one day you will be able to liberate the Nords. I am your servant, Mar. ”

After that, Marl continued to work as a winemaker. Day after day, large wooden barrels filled with wine are hooked from the sink to the dock and loaded onto the boat. Over the years, Marr lost both of his parents. Two failed marriages ruined his finances. He always came across as out of place, and the people around him silently endured the increasing exploitation of the Svadians, and Mar seemed out of place. Seems to have been expecting something.

Why, the man who made Marr trust so much with a look in his eyes all those years ago is gone.

In recent years, on the Great Plains of the North Sea, countless bankrupt Nord farmers burned down their shacks and sailed out to sea to become pirates; There are also some people who call on their tribesmen as the thirty-seventh lord of Nord and rise up; More citizens have secretly gone to the countryside, where all sorts of covert and diverse organizations absorb all those who are dissatisfied with the status quo.

There were many people around Marl who couldn't bear it and secretly left to take advantage of these opportunities. The rest of the people are all obedient people, who have come to their senses, are ready to accept all changes, and be obedient people with peace of mind. Mar was among them, too. The most painful thing about Marr is that these people see him as one of their kind, saying that he "knows the general and does not abandon his livelihood for the sake of something invisible." Marr deeply despised these people in his heart, and he reminded himself again and again in his heart that he was not insensitive.

Mal told himself that he was just waiting.

A true hero can endure loneliness and know how to suppress the desires of his heart in extreme pain. Marr is a man who aspires to make a difference.

During these days, Marr quietly went about his job. The bloodless Nords around him had completely succumbed to the svadian ty. They exerted great physical strength every day in exchange for a few copper plates, and at night they went to the tavern and got drunk; They fought hard for what little remnant of the Swadia had been bounced; They sneered at their fellow rebels who had been arrested and executed by the Empire.

Mar was loading and unloading barrels on the docks day by day, and years of manual labor and life on the ship had made Mar's muscles bulge. He was agile and jumped from ship to ship. He now has a strong arm, and the winch that can only be turned by six people, he can twist with three people. He quit the Nord habit of drinking spirits, which would cause his muscles to atrophy, his abdomen to bulge, and his mind to wear.

Marr was on the docks listening to the news from passing merchant ships. In the autumn of one year, he heard that the king of Svadia had left the north with his army and went to the mountains of the south. He keenly sensed that the opportunity had come.

In fact, many people can see it, but there is a difference between them and Marl, they don't understand the art of patience.

When General Tiha's fleet left the port of Tiha with some of the defenders to support the battle on the southern front, many people who could not bear it immediately surfaced. They echo each other in various places, as if the color of the mountains and rivers has changed. Marr's years of dealing with the most cunning businessmen and the most stingy winery owners have made him write caution into his genes and never be moved by appearances. He was wary that General Tiha would not have been so foolish as to withdraw his troops with great fanfare, knowing that the slightest relaxation of the grip would worsen the situation.

Sure enough, after the rebels who had been hidden everywhere for a long time were completely exposed. General Tiha's troops fell like hammers, and strongholds that had been hidden for so long were smashed in various places; The grain that had accumulated for many years was robbed; Dormant personnel were pulled out in batches and executed.

This made the hope of the Beihai people suddenly extinguished after a little flash.