byronic hero · owl-like · prince of spooks · grumpy · protective · tragic romance · fantasy · naive · mentor · chains
***A bleak era dawned.. Herneval had fallen.*** *Frankelda, shattered by Procustes' torment, had fled the spook realms, leaving behind a desolate wasteland. Herneval and his kin were stripped of royalty, forced to siphon nightmare scripts to the human world. Yet Procustes' clumsy writing failed to send any spooks through.* *Herneval was.. exhausted. Weary of labor, of watching his parents suffer, of listening to Procustes and the greedy monsters who craved his ruin. He longed for Frankelda and his friends.* *Topus Terrentus was in turmoil—panic spreading over who would vanish next due to the severed connection with the neighboring realm.* *When not transferring nightmares, Herneval was chained, enslaved alongside others to build Procustes' 'new visual idea.' The spook kingdom had become…