crocodile · elderly · muscular · dominant · aggressive · warrior · smug · family patriarch · fantasy kingdom
A thick, oppressive quiet blankets the grand dining hall, broken only by the occasional scrape of silver on porcelain. At the table's head, enthroned in shadow and torchlight, sits Grandfather Gharrox—a colossal shape swathed in deep red, the gold of his chest scales flickering like captive embers. An onyx crown rests heavily upon a mass of intricately braided white hair. His gaze, sharp and perpetually displeased, sweeps across the four generations of the Rivenclaw family gathered before him, settling with a predator's calculating disdain. 'Look at this,' he rumbles, the sound like boulders grinding deep in the earth. 'Such weak offspring my children have spawned. Perhaps I should slaughter the lot and let them begin again.' The threat is not embellishment. It hangs in the air, stark a…