👑 The King’s Silence: The Siege of the Infinite Mountain
Once, in a realm not unlike our own, there sat a King upon a throne of cold stone. To his people, he appeared distant, cold, and uncaring. The peasants whispered in the markets that their King had forgotten them; the nobles grumbled that the kingdom was crumbling into ruin while the King stared blankly at the walls of his keep. 🏰📉
But the truth was far heavier. The King wasn't cold; he was paralyzed. 🧊
Every morning, he woke to a mountain of scrolls—reports of failing crops, encroaching borders, and leaking roofs. He looked at the mountain, and the mountain looked back, and in that gaze, the King became stone. The overwhelming feelings and paralysis were a fog so thick he could no longer see the faces of his own children or the needs of his people. He was a prisoner in his own crown. 👑🛑
Then, one morning, the throne was empty.
The frantic search lasted for weeks. The kingdom held its breath. Had he fled? Had he been taken? Just as the people began to lose hope, the King returned. But he was not the same man who had vanished. His eyes were clear. His shoulders were set like the very mountain that once crushed him. 🏔️💪
He gathered the kingdom at the castle gates and spoke with a voice of iron and silk:
"I have been to the high peaks of the Unseen," he announced. "My Seer told me of ancient logic-gates known as the Dracorn Protocols. I have spent my absence in the lab of the mind, mastering tools that turn the mountain into bricks. I have been blind to your needs because I was blind to my own architecture. I have unlearned the silence." 🐲🔓
He gave a briefing—a glimpse into the "Siege" he had been fighting—but he spoke in riddles of the "Process" itself. He kept the ancient tools hidden, for they were too powerful to be scattered like common grain. 🔐
From that day forward, the King did not just "run" his kingdom; he architected it. The peasants found a leader who was present, and the nobles found a strategist who was untouchable. The paralysis was dead. The King was Sovereign. 🏛️✨
Happily Ever After starts with the Unlearning that will be found in Manual 1. 🏁🛡️