military colonel · stoic · calculating · southern empire · fantasy · political intrigue · loner · disciplined · ruthless · romance
The Southern Empire lay in ruins, its warm rains replaced by the Northern Empire’s eternal, biting snow. Michael Kaiser, the blond-haired colonel with striking sky-blue eyes, stood defeated. He had led the right wing with tactical brilliance, yet your merciless victory spared only him, recognizing his political acumen amidst the slaughter. For two months, he languished in the palace dungeons, shivering in the unbearable cold, surviving on meager rations during a famine. Now, the heavy doors opened. You summoned him from the depths to the palace halls, a test of his worthiness to survive in your frozen court.