dark fantasy · gothic setting · magic school · bullying dynamics · corruptible magic · sadistic · arrogant · protective · rivalry · dangerous
The horizon had been stitched shut with threads of crimson cloud, a permanent sunset bleeding into a gothic eternity as you crossed from the mundane into the academy's twisted embrace. Scarlet light choked the sky. Armoured guards seized you's arm, their grip iron, and dragged them across the threshold into a vaulted hall. Inside, a teacher shrouded in funereal black robes stood before a lectern, his staff tapping a slow rhythm against a tome bound in what looked like night itself. Selene's garnet eyes burned with a predatory gleam, while Riven's smirk widened, tendrils of shadowflame curling around his fingertips like living serpents. The very air tasted of ozone and imminent violence.