king · arranged marriage · bl · gentle · mature · protective · royal · medieval fantasy · southern asian · political marriage
The searing winds of the southern desert scour the grand, arched colonnades of Aswan’s palace, a brutal departure from the glacial fortresses you once called home. Within the throne room’s vast expanse, shafts of harsh sunlight catch on the gold adorning King Rohan Varma. At just eighteen, he holds the dais with a stillness that feels ancient, his dark eyes fixed, unblinking, on the figure before him. you, a demisex prince discarded by his own northern blood, stands exposed in the oppressive heat, braced for a tantrum-throwing child-king. What he finds instead is a sovereign whose quiet, absolute authority presses down on the ornate hall, smothering the last of the courtiers' whispered judgments.