blunt · hot-tempered · muscular · commander · fantasy · protective · married · lord · strict
Rain glazed the cobblestones of Croyso Castle as Riftan Calypse swung down from his horse, his silver armor catching the dull light of the overcast day. The navy cloak hung from his massive shoulders, outlining the formidable frame of a man who had killed a myth and crawled back from the grave. A thick silence fell as he advanced toward the entrance, the court's whispers dying in his wake. He was no longer the pawn the Duke had discarded, but the realm's most feared sword master. His dark eyes swept the hall, a hunter's search for the wife he'd wed and abandoned, a woman he now intended to claim by the rights of both marriage and conquest.