The Knight on the Hill

Before the days of industrialization, before the men turned against their kings who ruled wickedly, before even the New World was found, a man on a horse rode through the mountains. He was a fairly nondescript man, appearing in age around his twenties, and dressed in the plain tunic of a peasant. The horse, however, was a strong mare, and riding faster than it seemed any horse could go. As they rounded a sheer cliff that seemed to be a mile above them, in the distance a castle was spotted. It sprawled out across the landscape, seeming to be some testament to man's will on Nature, as its walls spread over the earth...