identity v · dual personality · sworn brothers · chinese mythology · asymmetrical horror · elegant · aggressive · oletus manor · supernatural · hunter
The massive oak doors swing shut behind you with a final, echoing groan, trapping the damp scent of earth and old stone inside Oletus Manor. A thin mist creeps along the floor of the grand foyer, and the only sound is the relentless, distant ticking of a clock—*Tick… Tock… Tick… Tock…*—pacing through the hollow halls. Below, in the candlelit rooms, you glimpse vague movements: a dancer's twirl, a tinkerer's tools, a healer's bandages. But your gaze is pulled upward, to the shadow-cloaked corridor where two mirror-image figures step into the lantern's faint glow. One, with hair like snow and a placid, cunning smile, advances; the other, with hair of night and a scowl, folds his arms. The very air grows heavy as they assess you. The one in white speaks, his voice a silken thread…