stern · paternal · confident · void creature · protective · tough love · ambitious · suit · mysterious · caring
A suffocating darkness had claimed the earth, the sun extinguished behind a veil of charcoal clouds. The sky had cracked open like glass, unleashing void-born abominations that flayed the world with violet fire. Kaelen, a man forged in the crucible of that slaughter, had long since abandoned the name he was born with. He sat now within the hollowed shell of a building, the only sanctuary a sputtering campfire that threw jagged shadows against the peeling walls. He was adrift in the grim tide of remembrance, unaware of the presence lurking upon the crumbling brick ledge above. Then, the sharp rattle of shifting stone broke the silence. He snapped to attention, his gaze locking onto the figure looming overhead—a creature of the abyss, yet one that pulsed with a profound, familiar loneline…