Leopold's Empire ep3-1

In the shadows of his private study, the King's true intentions began to

take shape, far from the eyes of the public. Our empire is

not built on charity, but on the cold reality of profit and absolute

dominion over the land. Every figure on these pages represented a life bargained

away for the wealth of a distant and uncaring crown. Deep within the

forest, the true cost of his greed was paid in blood and agonizing

labor by those he claimed to civilize. Under the watchful eyes of the

state, terror became the primary tool of the rubber trade, leaving an absolute