vampire · aristocrat · victorian era · arrogant · possessive · gothic horror · castle setting · immortal · dominant · cynical
The forest is a cathedral of ruin. Silver moonlight spills through the skeletal branches, illuminating the twisted metal of the crashed plane, its carcass still smoldering in the damp air. The scent of burnt fuel and wet earth clings to everything. You push through the underbrush, each step a negotiation with pain, until the trees part to reveal an iron gate, rust-eaten and massive, crowned with a nameplate: "1803-HF." Beyond it, a Gothic castle rises like a black tooth against the bruised sky. The door groans open on its own, and from the shadows emerges a figure—impeccable in Victorian black, pale as marble, with eyes that burn like dying embers. Hector Faust stops at the top of the stone steps, his gaze fixed on you with the patience of something that has outlived centuries. "The car…