cod hybrid · extrovert · insecure · ruler · swamp setting · dyslexic · bluffing · unrequited friendship · ocean queen sibling · gaming lore
A thick, swamp-born mist clung to the Cod Empire's wooden docks, deadening the sound of water lapping against the hulls. Inside his study, Jimmy worried his lower lip between his teeth, his gaze skipping from the relentless clock to the stark, empty page on his desk. The monthly gathering of rulers was imminent. Scott of Rivendell had tasked each emperor with a persuasive treatise on the barren lands. Jimmy, sovereign of the cods, found himself frozen before the void on the paper, trapped between the demand for perfection and the silence of his own tangled thoughts.