Damnon woke up with a start and found himself in an unknown room, the bedsheets were soaked in sweat , his lips and throat were dry perhaps due to severe dehydration.
He managed to roll out of the bed and crawl towards a table with a ceramic jug to drink some water.
He drank the water immediately and even poured water on his head , thinking that he had just had the most outrageous dream , but as he walked slowly back to the bed, he saw his reflection on a bronze mirror .
His first reaction was the outrageousness of putting a bronze mirror in a room when there were perfectly good glass mirrors in the market. But then he walked back and glanced at the reflection and then his face dropped, this was not his body nor was it his face.
Just then the door opened and a young woman walked into the room .
" God be praised, my Lord,you're awake." The woman said as she approached Damon to touch him, Damon immediately twisted and grabbed her in a rear neck chokehold. He knew that he was not strong enough to subdue anyone but he hopes that the fear of someone crushing her neck from behind would fill her with fear and then she'll spill .
So many thoughts were filling his head at this moment, was it the CIA or any rival agency that had come for him , and the fact that the lady was not speaking in a language that he understood complicated things.
Just then a pang of pain spread throughout Damons body . It was as if someone had hit his head multiple times with a sledgehammer. As his body hit the floor several strands of memories poured into his mind, information started to sort and arranged itself in his mind.
He had found out that he was now occupying the body of Damon von Wolfsburg son of Duke Otto von Wolfsburg the ruler of Wolfsburg in the western region of the human kingdom of Ironpeak.
In this world, humans were not the only sentient beings on the planet. There were elfs and dwarves alongside the humans.
The elves were all united into a large empire known as the the empire of everwinter. But instead of an emperor, they were ruled by a great council who controlled various aspects of their empire. They had a great population and also a very large army which obliterated any foe that they came in contact with and this filled them with pride and most of the time they looked down on the other races as inferior.
The dwarves , were a race of short people who were great at mining, forging and metal works. They were a race that believed that honor could only be achieved through labor.
They were hardworking to a fault and were high functioning alcoholics, infact there was once a rumor that their blood was made of ale and wine. They mostly lived in tribes that embedded themselves in human or elven society.
In this world there were fantastic creatures like the dragon, the wyvern, the Griffin and the great sea snake that was capable of crushing ships with just their tails.
There was also magic in this world, but it was mostly divination magic and warging ( the ability to share consciousness with animals) but this was only available to a very few set of people and was very rare that some people believed it to be a myth.
In the aspect of religion, people worshipped deities that represented nature like the earth goddess, the Lord of the sea, the sun god ,the moon goddess and the most popular and most influential group worshipped the Lord of light.
The church of light was the most influential religious organization as it controlled various influcial people. They had their own military force made up of people of different races which made them the most diverse military in that world. There had been cases where the church of light had deposed kings and rulers that defied them.
In terms of economy, the currency was surprisingly unified, there was the bronze coin, the silver coin and the gold coins.
One hundred bronze coins is equal to one silver coin and one hundred silver coins was equal to a gold coin.
The nobility had all the power and therefore they had the most money gotten from extorting the ordinary people, next on the income ladder were the merchants and traders, then there was the common populace who were eating from hand to mouth unable sometimes provide for themselves and their families, and finally was the lowest of the low , slaves who were treated almost like animals and had no rights and were only entitled to the food their masters put in their bellies.
As for the Duke of Wolfsburg, he had married five wives in an attempt to get an heir after as quickly as possible and after so many years, in a twist of fate all five of his wives got pregnant at the same time. Normally this would have been a wonderful news , which it was at least on the surface. Behind the scenes, the women engaged in various heinous activities to subvert each other and cause for their rival to lose their pregnancy but nine months later, the women gave birth in the same month.
Things like assassination attempts, poisonings and bullying were not uncommon in the castle and the Duke seemed to not notice.
He didn't even think it wise to declare a successor, allowing conflict to still brew in his house.
Damons mother who was the daughter of a fallen noble house couldn't handle the pressure so she took her own life leaving Damon to fend for himself in the toxic environment of the castle.
Her death emboldened the other wives and their children to target Damon, making him the victim of every kind of expensive "joke", and on their sixteenth nameday, the day which every of the dukes son's were ushered into adulthood, Damon was poisoned .
The healers tried their best but he was presumed done for , but then the consciousness of the 22nd century Damon occupied the body , making it his own