[Realm: Álfheimr]
[Location: Outskirts]
When the odds were stacked against you, it was always easy to give up.
That truth followed people from the moment they learned what fear was. When an insurmountable wall rose in front of you, no one would fault you for stopping. Fewer still would judge you for trying, failing, and then stepping aside. This world was filled with challenges that had no clean answers, no elegant solutions. Problems that did not yield to effort or hope. When confronted with those moments, it was only natural to curse the world for daring to test you at all.
Perhaps you would still try. Many did. But success was never guaranteed, because most were human—and humans had limits. Fragile bodies. Fragile resolve. And yet, humans possessed a luxury few cared to acknowledge: the right to give up. The right to step back and let someone else continue in their place.
Humans were, in that sense, simple creatures.
