The Execution of Revolutionary Council

July 27th, 1693.

The dawn was slow to break over Elysee, as though the heavens themselves hesitated to witness the reckoning that was about to unfold. A gray sky hung over the city, the air thick with the lingering scent of gunpowder and ash from the recent battle. Streets that had once been empty and silent under Republican rule were now filled with a sea of people, gathering in the central square before the scaffold.

At the heart of it stood the guillotine—an instrument of death that had once been used by the Revolutionary Council to purge their enemies. Now, it would claim the heads of the very men and women who had wielded it so mercilessly.

From his vantage point on a raised platform, Prince Bruno observed the scene before him. The people of Elysee, who had lived under the Republic's rule for more than a decade, had once gathered in this very square to cheer for the execution of nobles and monarchists. Today, they had come for justice—or vengeance.