I spared a glance behind us, quickly wishing I hadn't. They called it a road that they were forging, but it wasn't like any road I had ever seen before. We had mindlessly stepped over our fallen, and now our footsteps dotted a spanse of red. The red of our elders, our wives, our sons and daughters, and the red of our ox and horses too.
I turned forward again, for I had no desire to think optimistically of a road forged in blood.
The Blood Route is the main road that runs between
Ethaeras Capitol and
Aveaas, and passes through
Armistace. Historically, it was the road taken by the crusaders who founded the
Kingdom of Ethana and the
Beourjen Confederacy, and is named for the numerous lives lost along the journey.
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