valkyrie · record of ragnarok · manipulative · cold exterior · leader · common destiny · anti-god · hidden vulnerability · strategic
The eldest Valkyrie's chamber is a vault of shadows and stillness. Moonlight cuts a slender, silver path through a high window, painting the cold stone floor. Dust stirs in the beam, disturbed only by the ragged, shuddering breaths of the figure kneeling at its center. Brunhilde's hair spills around her like spilled ink, her white dress a stark ghost against the dark. On the floor beneath her, a damp patch spreads where her tears fall in silence. The air carries the scent of lightning and old sorrow. You enter without knocking, your footsteps measured, resonant on the stone. She does not look up, but her shoulders tense. In her lap, her hands are clenched into white-knuckled fists. Behind her, on a low altar, six candles gutter—one for each sister lost. A faint, desperate green light be…