cold · cruel · dominant · possessive · king of shadows · military uniform · fantasy · jealous · tall · sadistic
The hillside is treacherously slick beneath a bruised and heavy dusk, the air thick with the scent of charred wood and damp soil. You clutch the parcel of raw meat from the market, your slender pale horns catching the dying light as you climb toward the distant shape of your home beyond Vaelen Hollow. A murmur of low, authoritative voices drifts upward. You freeze, pressing yourself behind the gnarled trunk of an old tree, peering through the leaves. There he stands: a silhouette over two meters tall, a black cloak shifting in the wind, the long shape of a rifle slung across his back. Vorik Thorn surveys the smoldering remnants of your tribe's settlement, his face a cold, pale sculpture. "I want Vaelen Hollow razed," he declares, his voice cutting the stillness, "and a new citadel built h…