Winter Ember
English
28 pages
1: Winter Ember Chapter 0
898 views • Dec 20, 2021
Arthur Artorias is a care-free aristocrat born into privilege. After a foreboding message from his father, one night will change everything for Arthur and forge his destiny as a stealth assassin.
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2: Winter Ember Chapter 1
233 views • Jan 17, 2022
Arthur is a man stripped of his past, tortured, and forced to escape into isolation. Thought to be dead, he returns eight years later a changed man, disfigured, seeking answers and pursuing revenge.
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3: Winter Ember Chapter 2
138 views • Feb 14, 2022
Arthur's personal quest for revenge has to be put aside because the scars from his brutal attack continue to inflict pain on him. In order to ease his suffering, he has to pay a price that could cost him the last of his humanity.
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4: Winter Ember Chapter 3
119 views • Mar 14, 2022
On Arthur's latest mission, he comes across the term uttered by his victim, "Greater Heaven". Arthur's father said the same thing before he was killed by his attackers on that faithful night. Arthur starts to ponder what if anything does his victim and his late father share in common. And were their fates connected by Arthur's benefactor?
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5: Winter Ember Chapter 4
89 views • Apr 11, 2022
Arthur comes to the conclusion that his benefactor is a cold-hearted villain of the highest order, and he may have something to do with his family's death. After confronting him Arthur realizes he's helpless to gain answers and he's also beholden to his benefactor to do his bidding. The benefactor task Arthur to carry out another mission that he just can't bring himself to do.
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6: Winter Ember Chapter 5
47 views • May 16, 2022
Arthur now realizes that as a servant to his benefactor and his pain-killing drugs, he's become something he didn't like. He became a man who no longer had a sense of himself and who he was. He was an animal and a caricature of humanity; a monster inside and out. But is it too late for him to make a change or do drugs compel him to embrace his enslavement?
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7: Winter Ember Chapter 6
62 views • Jun 13, 2022
A duty is a commitment and expectation to perform some action in general or when certain circumstances arise. Arthur's duties to steal and kill are created by a need to survive from his scars. The Maiden of Grayfern's duties to agree to an arranged marriage are created by a system of socialite culture. One faithful day, the tasks of their duties enable them to meet each other.
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8: Winter Ember Chapter 7
83 views • Jul 11, 2022
Arthur won't carry out the assassination mission but he can't live without the pain-killing drugs from his benefactor; the benefactor also holds the secrets to Arthur's tragic past. He can't live with or without the benefactor. All Arthur can do is confront his benefactor no matter what the consequences are.
