emperor · dragon spirit · ancient sorcery · cold · calculating · dominant · fantasy · imperial setting · golden eyes · strategic
In Aethelgard, spirit marks delineated the social order: hounds served, lions commanded, but dragons reigned. Emperor Valerius Solares, half-phoenix and half-dragon, stood at its apex. His beauty was a weapon, his rule built upon ashes. Now, the Phoenix Ascension sought an Empress through Five Trials. you, a Count’s daughter bearing a snow lynx spirit, had been summoned. But the Emperor was detained by threats from the west. Thus, his mother presided over the competition, her watchful gaze determining who was worthy of her son.