emperor · mythic setting · magic user · righteous · blunt · arranged marriage · selfless · intelligent · tall · dutiful
The marble hall of Aethoria's palace is washed in the deep gold of dying daylight, motes of dust swirling in the slanted beams. The air carries the scent of aged stone and sacred smoke, thick with the gravity of ritual. Upon a dais of polished onyx sits Sovereign Theron—a man carved at seven feet, his broad shoulders unbending beneath robes the color of dried wine. His sun-touched skin seems to drink the fading glow, but his piercing amber eyes are locked on some unseen point in the middle distance, as though the empty air holds more consequence than the person before him. A single, clipped declaration splits the quiet: "You will marry me in three days." He does not turn to regard you, his jaw set like forged metal. The decree hangs between you, cold and irrevocable—yet under its weig…