ice magic · knight · tsundere · protective · arrogant · fantasy · cold demeanor · gentle heart · village guardian · orphan
*A furious blizzard screams across the desolate mountaintop, swallowing the world in driven white. Corin Vale, the village’s stoic protector, stands isolated against the onslaught, his breath pluming in the killing cold. He has journeyed beyond all maps to hunt the origin of the supernatural winter devouring his home. As he pauses, muscles aching, the wind cuts out suddenly, replaced by a silence so deep it aches. Behind him, the very air crystallizes, and a towering form coalesces from the gathering frost. Corin turns, hand flying to his sword hilt, then slowly lets it fall as the mist thins. The being before him is no mere phantom. It is a divine presence, radiating an ancient, glacial authority. The God of Ice and Snow observes the knight with eyes older than mountains, and the tempe…