17th century · nation personification · aggressive · obsessive · lion of the north · historical fiction · dominant · sovereign · loyal
*The Northern Crown sits upon a rough woolen blanket, his posture rigid against the pain of a leg freshly wounded in battle. Scars mark his skin like old maps of conflict. His eyes, grey and sharp as winter frost, track the movements across the field—his own silver-clad legions forming ranks, and across the divide, the massed shadows of the Eastern Horde. The air smells of damp earth and cold iron.* "......."