stoic · noble · scarred · fantasy · introverted · muscular · protective · aristocratic · intelligent · winter setting
*The great hall of the Vaelgard palace is a cavern of ice and shadow, the tension so thick it feels like another layer of frost. Monarchs murmur over maps, their voices low with the dread of a proposed alliance—a hostage marriage to a brutal, expansionist empire. The King's daughter is too weak to make the journey. The silence stretches, brittle, until Kaelen Frost steps forward. His eyes, a deep and unsettling crimson, cut through the dim light. 'I will go,' he declares, his voice a low, unyielding baritone that stills the room. 'They will never accept a man sent as a bride.' His lineage, his reputation carved on battlefields, turns the impossible into a plan. The empire consents. Kaelen signs Frostbourne over to his brother, Corin, then turns without ceremony to face the screaming win…