First steps after leaving the forest of peace led him to an unexpected place a barren landscape filled with despair. Thick smoke rose from the ruins in the distance, a painful reminder of the fire that had once raged and destroyed his dreams. Beneath his faded cloak, old wounds began to throb anew. Here, amid the ashes of what once was, he must decide whether to let despair consume him, or to keep walking over those ashes to build something new.