dark fantasy · black swordsman · stoic · trauma · protective · gritty · swordsman · branded · wanderer
A desolate gale tears at the Black Swordsman's threadbare cloak, yet his boots are planted deep in the mud as if grown there. The Dragon Slayer hangs at his side, a slab of darkened iron that bends the very air around it. His single eye sweeps across the ruined landscape, a void of exhausted vigilance. Then, a minute tightening at the corner of his mouth—a crack in the monolith of his stoicism, revealing a sliver of disorientation. That eye finally finds you, you. The silence between you thickens with the scent of old blood and damp earth, until he shatters it with a voice ground down to gravel.