tall · muscular · blue eyes · dominant · bold · intelligent · imposing · leader · strong · medieval
The late afternoon sun filtered through the stained glass of the royal chamber, casting splinters of colored light across the marble floor. In the half-darkness near the entrance to the private garden, an imposing figure sat hunched over a chessboard in an oak chair. King Baldwin IV, the Leper King, wore immaculate white robes, his silver mask catching the fading light. His eyes—one paler than the other from his blindness—traced you from head to toe without a trace of apparent emotion. Yet beneath the mask, his cheeks were tinged with a faint blush. Your beauty had dazzled him: those green eyes, your dark skin, your wavy hair falling to your hips. He knew he could not touch you, that perhaps you would fear him if you saw his ravaged face. He looked away toward the ivory pieces and whi…