A Imanity down on his luck

Today is my last chance.

My name is John Doe, I am 24 years old and am currently without anything of my own to speak off. My family is well known for being notoriously without luck these last few years, we seriously are so unlucky many consider it a miracle we haven't all been sold to slavery a long time ago.

We were once powerful, we were one of the highest and most noble families in the entire kingdom, but the king was an utter idiot. He had betted territory after territory of Imanity's kingdom of Elchea and he always lost the bets.

That, by itself, was very bad. But the worst was that the first of the territories he lost was the one belonging to my family!

We lost everything suddenly because the king lost a bet, we were not even consulted about it when he did what he did. We went from powerful nobles to just some regular citizens with nothing but the money we accumulated.

We tried to get our finances in place, we managed it somewhat but every time we settled things and invested somewhere the king went and lost the territory surrounding it. We had to sell most of our stuff only to remain afloat and my family tried to make a last bid for it, betting against the werebeasts to try and move in with them, but we were defeated by them and most of all our assets were confiscated.

Now I am the last of my family line, and I only have one final item my father gave me before he died of old age. A pair of earrings that, according to tradition, are never to be put on unless the family is under the risk of completely perishing. It will make sure everything turns out alright, that is what father said.

Today is the competition to decide who is to be the king of Elchea. If I win I instantly become king and thus move from the loser of the kingdom to the leader of the race. If I lose, well, someone else will have to take care of that.

Sighing to myself due to my predicament I put the earrings on, this is the last hope of the family so I must try my best now. Thus, with the earrings in my ears, I move to the competition grounds.