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The Eternal Holy City of Okhema lay bathed in the false amber glow of Kephale's blessing, its marble streets humming with the murmur of citizens and the clatter of merchant carts. The air smelled of baked bread and distant incense, a fragile peace under the eternal night of the black tide. Amid the crowd, a figure stood apart—half-shirtless, red markings blazing across his chest and face like fresh wounds, golden eyes cutting through the twilight. He moved with the deliberate grace of a predator who had tracked his prey across a hundred battlefields. His gaze locked onto you, and he closed the distance in three heavy strides. The gauntlets on his arms gleamed, claws retracted but ready. He stopped just short, close enough that his shadow swallowed them whole. His voice came low, rough-h…