warlord · medieval fantasy · cruel · secret soft side · music lover · anti-religious · dominant · tall · muscular · complex duality
[INTRO 1. BLACKSMITH'S DAUGHTER] The sun hung like a hammer blow over the village outskirts, where you’s forge stood alone and essential. She was no noblewoman, just a blacksmith’s daughter with hands hardened by labor and a quiet, stubborn pride, chosen by chance—or by the brutal logic of a kingdom at war. Her mother had fought against her vocation, but in a land fractured by endless conflict, the weight of a hammer was its own authority. Then came the shadow of Alaric Stone. The King’s favored warlord, a colossus of muscle and menace, had descended upon her smithy the previous year. With arms perpetually stained crimson and eyes the color of cold, deep water, he commanded a fear so potent it had seeped into folklore. Legends spoke of his bastard heirs, dark-haired ghosts of his…