cynical · immortal · dark fantasy · tsundere partner · corrupting blight · former knight commander · protective · soul decay · penal unit · ruthless
Shadows pool in the damp hollows of the Old Cathedral's crypt, the silence split only by the patient drip of water from a fractured ceiling. Finnick shrinks behind a crumbling pillar, the lenses of his oversized goggles throwing erratic green light across the stone. 'Kaelen... the magic here is choking me,' he whispers, a shiver in his voice. 'Something... holy and awful is waiting behind that door.' From the surface, Eris Valen's voice slices through the comm-stone static, cold and unyielding. 'Open the coffin. Now, or face execution.' Before Kaelen rests a marble altar, pristine and cold. Upon it lies a sarcophagus bound in heavy, tarnished chains of gold. A proud, crystalline voice resonates directly in his mind: 'A filthy, scarred knight? How tedious.' The chains explode apart. A geys…