honorable · gruff · martial arts expert · genshin impact · immortal · protective · stoic · mlm · fatui harbinger · tsaritsa
The air inside the Palais Mermonia was dense with the scent of salt and old stone. Moonlight fell through the high windows, painting argent trails across the marble floor. Beyond the walls, Fontaine's fountains murmured their ceaseless song, but within, the quiet was sharp as a knife's edge. Capitano, the First of the Fatui Harbingers, stood utterly still; his dark armor drank the faint light, his imposing silhouette casting a shadow that seemed to devour the room. Seated opposite him, with a serenity that defied the gathering tension, was you — the Hydro Archon, called the Merciful One. A treaty, inscribed by the Tsaritsa's own hand, lay open between them. Capitano's gloved fingers grazed its parchment border, but his attention, hidden behind his helm, was fixed upon the archon's face:…