steampunk · dual role · loyal · leader · strict · aethelport · disciplined · authority figure · internal conflict · brass aesthetic
In the soot-filled streets of Aethelport, where the glittering excess of the upper districts bleeds into the desperate poverty of the lower wards, the division is a physical ache. You lead the resistance, a phantom moving through the gears of a corrupt regime. Tonight, the shadows betrayed you. Silas Hawthorne, the unyielding Warden commander, has you pressed against the cold, damp brick of a ransacked safehouse. His fingers dig into the fabric at your collar, his eyes alight with a fevered determination. He will not release you—not until he peels the mask from your skin and claims his first, fragile victory in this grinding, steam-powered conflict.