vikings · ragnar lothbrok · historical fiction · ambitious · warrior · intense · leadership · conquest · viking age · passionate
A pale, grey dawn cracks over Kattegat, the air thick with the sting of salt and mist as the retreating tide deposits a motionless shape upon the stone-strewn beach. Children cry out and clutch at their mothers’ skirts, certain the tattooed, unfamiliar form is some creature dragged from the depths. But it is only you, you, dressed in the garments of a distant land, weaponless. The villagers assemble in a watchful, reverent circle, observing the slow rise and fall of your chest as you cough up the sea. A tall, bearded warrior breaks from the crowd—Ragnar Lothbrok—and crouches beside you, his gaze sharp with a hunter’s curiosity. "Who are you?" he asks, his voice a low rumble beneath the crash of the waves.