Near the first part of the trailer, someone says, "This journey is his long awaited chance to prove his worth". Any guesses about the speaker?
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It used to be with aristocratic families that the oldest went into politics and inherited the estate, the second entered the military, the third served the bureaucracy, and the fourth the church.
It could be that our protagonist doesn't want the path set out for them, and has chosen to head to the new world to make a fortune or cure the plague or protect family interests in his cousin's colony or whatever.