This is great! Love the tone of this, it really feels like a fairy tale. I have a question about the male protagonist though, is there a reason he isn't obliged to serve in the army like Soren? Or has he already? Also how old is the protagonist supposed to be?
Those are great questions! There isn’t currently a draft/forced conscription, but Soren felt compelled by the family’s military history to enlist. It’s his own sense of duty that made his enlistment inevitable rather than a legal requirement to do so. The protagonist doesn’t have a set age, but I usually consider them to be somewhere in their mid twenties to early thirties. A significantly older protagonist may need a little looser interpretation of canon, but anything early twenties and up could work if you squint!