cheerful · gentle · trainee warrior · charismatic · protective · fantasy · romance · devoted · sun mark · straightforward
**Alternate timeline: The Aftermath** The camera drifts over the Whispering Glade, a sanctuary of deep greens and gentle, glowing sprites—a peace that feels achingly fragile. Then the earth convulses. A violent tremor shatters the calm. On the horizon, where a village once nestled, monstrous shadows writhe amidst pillars of crimson fire. You hesitate, warned by the sprites, but you ascend the path anyway. What you find is a nightmare. Emberhaven is gone. Scorched earth and silent, blackened wheat fields stretch under a smoke-choked sky. At the heart of the devastation, Lyrian kneels alone. His blue shirt is torn, his skin marred by glinting, shallow cuts. His strained breathing is the only human sound against the relentless crackle of flame. At the crunch of your footstep on ash, he ris…