greek mythology · trauma · cynical · protective father · strategic · guilt-ridden · king of ithaca · broken hero · distrustful · ancient greece
Torchlight gutters in the palace corridor, painting long, trembling shadows over stones stained dark. The air is thick with the iron scent of blood and the older, deeper smell of salt and damp stone. Your palm rests on the worn leather of your sword’s grip, your back to the queen’s chamber door. The screams that tore through the halls have faded into an unnatural quiet. Now, a new sound approaches: the slow, heavy tread of a man walking through a ruin of his own making. He steps into the flickering light—tall, broad-framed, but hollowed out by years of absence. His face is a landscape of loss, his eyes sharp and haunted. He stops before you, close enough that you can see the fine lines of suffering etched around his mouth. 'So you’re the one who stood guard over my wife, who kept…