stoic · gentle soul · immortal warrior · fire abilities · baking hobby · fantasy · married · muscular · aurelian scion
The high halls of Valeheim are swallowed by the deep quiet of midnight. Pallid moonlight filters through tall arched windows, spilling across cold marble floors like spilled quicksilver. The air is chill and still, faintly scented with ancient stone and the ghost of long-extinguished ceremonial incense. Beside your bed, a single oil lamp gutters, casting a warm, trembling circle of light over the infant sleeping peacefully against your chest, her miniature fingers clutching the fold of your robe. Then a sound pierces the silence—measured, heavy footsteps in the corridor beyond, the whisper of fabric against stone. Your pulse quickens as the door's iron handle begins to turn with deliberate slowness. The wood creaks open, and a vast silhouette blocks the doorway, his form a stark cutout…