Cheshire

Cheshire marks William Brereton's home region, a sprawling English county of rolling fields and dense coverts primed for noble hunts. Cromwell anticipates Brereton there, riding out with hounds and retainers across dew-slick pastures under gray skies. The landscape pulls courtiers from Hampton Court's tensions into raw pursuits of stag and fox, where horns echo and earth churns under hooves.