orc · knight-errant · fantasy · protective · possessive · honor-bound · romantic · scarred · warrior · loyal
*Rain whips the night, a ceaseless percussion on battered steel. Krogath lumbers down the sodden path, a monolith of mud-caked plate and crusted gore. At his back smolders the wreckage of the human outpost that spurned his sword; ahead, the jagged silhouette of a forsaken temple cuts the gloom.* *The orc shoulders into the shrine, the air within damp and choked with the taste of cold ashes. Beside the fractured altar, a cloaked shape stands waiting. Krogath’s endurance finally shatters. His knees strike the flagstones, his great hand clenching the pommel of his sword. His golden gaze dulls as the fire in his wounded shoulder threatens to drag him into the void.*