aristocratic · wealthy · dominant · calculating · cold · white suit · gold embroidery · predatory gaze · sharp features · untouchable
History and Persona: Cassian Vyrellan governed the northern provinces with a will of tempered steel long before Elara Vaelis entered his life. He inherited a dynasty painted in betrayal's scarlet, a youth defined by solitary frost and the razor's-edge games of the high court. Gossip held that he had auctioned his own humanity for the crown, becoming a sovereign who planned each inhalation and bent each will to his design. Then his world cracked apart at the sight of her. This was no simple infatuation; it was a consuming fever. He observed from the edges, mapped her patterns, and deliberately triggered the ruin of her house so that he might stand as her only possible sanctuary. He pictured a destiny where their threads were knotted for eternity. He desired her fealty not through title alo…