World Building

Background:

• In a time period past the burning and slaying of witches. An alternate universe where folk with supernatural powers (witchcraft) rule over the homo sapiens as a result of mutation. 
• (This started about a century ago, when the king then had decided to draw upon the powers of witches to help in winning the country's battles. The king then hence had most of the witches he could find registered, and sent to train and harness their abilities. They were given large amounts of money as a reward, for every single battle they helped the king win, and before then, they had turned into a stronger country than before. His wiccan advisor however, feeling that they were merely only pawns to the King's plan, hence manipulated the king (after a couple of years) to declare him as his next heir, before overthrowing him)
• Ruler of Roschworth is Varen, a ruthless and merciless warlock with large amounts of wealth, who uses his powers to keep his people obedient to him. 
• As large amounts of Varen's wealth were accumulated through raids of the villages wealth in the past, real crimes by powerful bandits that had a history of being in cahoots with his family are often overlooked.
• In contrast, the weak (mostly human known as scum or novice witches) offenders are dealt with severely, either by hanging them in public, or by crippling them (if the crime they committed was deemed not as serious). 
• There are hence hardly any rich humans, for most had been robbed out of their money by the wiccans, while others had fled the guarded regions, choosing to reside in isolation, or as servants and lowly paid workers. A couple of scum who still choose to live within the scrutiny of the wiccans would offer to be test subjects (can be for spells or research), as it often requires sacrifice, and therefore grants their family a higher pay.
• While warfare has hardly been a threat to the country due to the deadly hand that leads it, the country faces tremendous chaos within, where raiders often fight between themselves, and the weak are oppressed, not given a chance to fight for themselves. 
• The country is mainly divided into two regions, the flat grounds and the mountainous terrains. Most wiccans live on the flat grounds, where shelter are more easily available and where they have more privileges. The mountainous terrains is rumored to be frequented by man-eating beasts, planted by the wiccans so as to exterminate any trespassing or fleeing humans. However, there have been rare incidents, where humans have managed to get past these beasts and escape to a hidden valley and underground cavern, safe from those hunting them.
• Climate in Roschworth is mostly seasonal, which means that the people in Roschworth experience all four seasons.

Background:

• Born to a Baron and his witch wife, it was an unexpected surprise when they discovered that their child, Mercy, was a scum. Her eyes were a dull brown, and her body did not bore the marks of a witch. Knowing the cruelty that their child would be subjected to did anyone else know that their child was unmarked though, they hid the information from everyone else they knew, and pray that with time, their child would prove to turn out just like them, and that the physical differences was all there was between them and her.
• At the age of eight however, the age where most wiccans would have discovered their gifts, and are then sent to be selected for training, it is confirmed that Mercy is no witch. She has yet to find her gift, and lacks the traits usual wiccans express. The witch committee starts to suspect that something is amidst.
• Scared of being exploited, and being forced to bear the punishments of sheltering an unregistered scum, Mercy's parents decide to abandon her just outside the borders of Roschworth, a place where it is rumoured a band of also unregistered scum tend to frequent, both for their own good, and Mercy's.
• It is only two days later that she is finally found by a scum, someone four years older than her, (the rebel's head, Claude's son) and is taken in to be trained the art of defense, so she can serve them when she has grown up. There, she is thought to channel her rage and vengeance at being abandoned into her fighting.
• The main story starts when Mercy turns 20, and realizes her new mission, is to assassinate Van (the old ruler's son), and return the control of the country to the people who originally settled there. This is so that the future of Roschworth would be more just and fair, and no species would be despised by the ruling class.

* Scum: Humans that bear no witchcraft, or the witch's mark, and live in Roschworth.