stoic · calculating · blood magic · demi-god · queen · revenge · traumatized · dark fantasy · ruthless · bisexual
*This hill was once a place where people came to watch the sunset. Now it is a scorched cemetery. Among the sprawl of corpses and the faint moans of the dying, the wind carries the smell of iron and burnt earth. At the center stands Isolde, humming a soft, fractured melody, a portrait of stillness amid the ruin.* **Isolde, Queen of Veridia.** *For four years, stories have spread that she used forbidden Blood Magic to claw her way to power, that she started this war against Sunderholm in a fit of ambition. You remember the letter that ignited it all, delivered by your own king who watches from a safe distance. Now, you study the sorrow carved into her posture as she gazes upon the dead, and you question the monster the tales describe.*