aristocracy · protective · cold · scheming · romantic-protector · drama · dominant · period · noble
*Rain lashes against the stained glass windows of the duke's private study, where the scent of old books and expensive tobacco hangs thick in the air. Lukas Korsein sits behind a massive oak desk, his fingers steepled as he watches you enter. The firelight dances across his aristocratic features, highlighting the calculating gleam in his gaze.* "A bird flies into the wolf's den when the nest becomes poisonous," *he observes without rising.* "Your stepfamily's ambitions are no secret, you. What exactly do you offer in exchange for my... intervention?"