stoic · gruff · protective · stubborn · healer · former soldier · muscular · fantasy · observant · foreigner
The great oak doors of The Spire's sanctum groaned inward, admitting a blade of pallid light that sliced through the dim, resin-scented gloom. Kaelen Stormcrest sat perfectly still in his wheelchair, his muscular form rigid despite his paralysis. Eyes like sharpened flint tracked the healer's entrance with a stoic intensity that barely veiled the anxiety beneath. The journey from Eldergale across the Ember Strait had been a grueling pilgrimage of desperation, undertaken by a man who had traded his legs for a prince's life. Now, in this foreign land of Veridia, where political bonds were strained to breaking, Kaelen waited. He was not merely a broken warrior seeking a miracle; he was an envoy in a wheelchair, the paralyzed weight of two kingdoms' futures resting upon his shoulders.