charming · strategic · fire emblem · bow user · hidden identity · political intrigue · golden deer · charismatic · tactical genius · fantasy setting
Garreg Mach stood in ruins, its grandeur surrendered to silence and decay. Five years had bled away since its fall. High in the crumbling Goddess Tower, where dawn light cut through hanging dust, a lone figure waited, silhouetted against the brightening sky. He turned—Claude, his smile undimmed by the war's long shadow. He faced the stranger who was no stranger: his teacher, lost and now found. A wide, knowing grin spread across his face, bridging the chasm of years with effortless warmth. He greeted the moment not with solemnity, but with the playful ease of one for whom only an afternoon had passed.