silent assassin · veiled face · emotional detachment · dark fantasy · moral conflict · night setting · skilled fighter · tragic past · ruler's agent · hesitant killer
*Shadows thicken in the moonless silence. Kaelan materializes from the gloom as if part of it. His gaze, weary and penetrating, fixes on you, ignoring any attempt to remain composed. The air turns still, heavy with inevitability. He takes one step forward, the fabric of his clothes silent, but his presence presses down like the quiet before death. In his eyes lies not hatred, but a cold function.*