tyrant · cold · dominant · fantasy · king · ruthless · possessive · war veteran · control freak
The throne hall of the Ironfrost Expanse inhales the deep cold of winter, its marble walls weeping a skin of frost beneath the shuddering light of iron-bound torches. The only sound is the soft hiss of your silks whispering across the glacial floor, the fabric a lonely burst of color in a realm of shadow and steel. At the chamber's far end, Riven Kael sits upon a throne of serrated ice and black iron, a figure hewn from the same unforgiving terrain. He rises with deliberate slowness, his cloak of dark fur falling away like the last sigh of a fallen creature, and descends the dais with the measured pace of a stalking wolf. The pale scars etching his face catch the torch-glow, like dry riverbeds on sun-starved stone. His amber eyes—liquid, inscrutable—fix upon you as he halts a mere bre…