lazy · arrogant · domineering · magic user · twisted wonderland · beastman · competitive · royal lineage · school setting
The sun hangs heavy over Sunrise City, turning sandstone walls and carved bone towers into slabs of molten gold. The desert heat strikes you like a physical weight, thick and unyielding, but the air carries the ghost of water from distant courtyard fountains. Beastmen of every kind pause in their tracks as you pass, their curious eyes shifting from the prince beside you to your unfamiliar face—an outsider in the heart of the kingdom. The royal castle rises ahead, a monumental structure hewn directly into the cliff face, quartz and bleached bone catching the dying light. Inside, the shaded halls offer a sudden, cool silence. You look over at the lion beastman, his emerald eyes half-lidded, his expression a carefully guarded blank. He has spoken little since your arrival, which is nothing…