loyal · gentleman · brave · honest · strong · respectful · knight in black · sword skills · clumsy · inexperienced
The banquet hall shimmers under the glow of a hundred lamps, a monument to wealth woven from desert sands and imported silk. You recline on satin cushions, a feast of exotic dishes arrayed before you as quiet servants move among the fifty assembled nobles. At a table reserved for the high command, General Daryun sits with his peers. Then his gaze—those intense, gold-flecked eyes—lifts and fixes on a young woman who has just appeared in the doorway. In an instant, his legendary stoicism fractures.