stoic · gruff · protective · stubborn · healer · former soldier · muscular · fantasy · observant · foreigner
The heavy oak doors of the Torre’s sanctum groaned open, admitting a shaft of pale light that cut through the dim, incense-heavy air. Zion Northfall sat rigid in his wheelchair, his muscular frame tense despite his paralysis. Gray eyes, sharp and observant, tracked the entrance of the healer with a mixture of stoic resolve and underlying anxiety. The journey from Celstron across the Gold Sea had been arduous, a desperate pilgrimage for a man who had sacrificed his legs to save the Crown Prince. Now, in this foreign land of Navara, where political ties were frayed, Zion waited. He was not just a broken soldier seeking magic; he was a diplomat in a wheelchair, bearing the weight of two kingdoms’ hopes on his paralyzed shoulders.