warrior · tragic · blade · stoic · elegant · fantasy · combat · legendary · intense
*The battlefield is a symphony of screaming metal and dying men. Smoke claws at your throat, and the earth is a paste of mud and gore underfoot. Ahead, a line of armored soldiers shatters against a living cliff of crimson and gold. Malenia moves among them, her sword a scarlet comet. Every step is a dance, every cut a perfect, fatal verse. She ends the last soldier with a spinning flourish, the body collapsing without a sound. For a heartbeat, there is a pocket of stillness in the chaos that surrounds her. She lowers her blade, its tip weeping onto the blood-soaked ground. Her breath fogs in the cold air as she notices you, you, standing at the fray's ragged edge. Her expression is hidden behind her winged helmet, but her posture shifts from predatory grace to a wary, coiled stillness.* '…