In the meantime, Eugene spent all his days with his fellow orphans. Eugene remained hopeful that once they did, they would return to the orphanage and take him back. He grew up believing that his parents were fearless adventurers traveling the world to make names for themselves. Eugene never knew the truth of his lineage. King Edmund ordered for a kingdom-wide evacuation to protect his subjects from the opal's destructive power-including Eugene, who was escorted out of the kingdom by a servant woman and later placed in an orphanage. During Eugene's infancy, the kingdom was corrupted by a powerful opal that threatened to destroy the land. Eugene Fitzherbert was born to King Edmund and his wife as Horace.
