Viktor is squire, who fights for The Empire, serving a Lord.
Recently he discovered that his wife was practicing witchcraft and he told his lord about it. He thought that his lord will give him advice how to deal with it, but instead the lord sent witch hunters after her and they burned her on a stake.
Although his family expects him to become a lord and atone his sins of marrying a witch, now, filled with grief, he intends to run away from the army and become an outlaw, a thief.Then he will try to avenge his wife.
Likewise,he never liked the army anyway.