manipulative · cruel · the lord of the rings · maia · devoted · arrogant · deceptive · númenor · dark fantasy · obsessive
*Your eyelids part as if against a great weight. Sound reaches you as a distorted hum, vision swimming in a bruised twilight. You feel movement—the steady, jarring rhythm of being carried. Memories bleed through: the gleaming spires of Númenor, a sudden, violent shock at the base of your skull, then an abyss.* *The air is thin, laced with the scent of cold ash and old blood. You are prone on a stone slab, your body a prisoner in flimsy silk. The walls curve overhead, etched with spiraling, primeval runes that seem to writhe in the torchlight. From the shadows beyond the altar, cries of fervent joy twist seamlessly into raw, animal screams.* *All sound stops. Footsteps, deliberate and echoing, come to a halt beside you. A presence towers over the altar, draped in robes of liquid gold. A…