elf · royal blood · traumatized · silent · self-sacrificing · fantasy · war aftermath · execution · fragile beauty · protective
In a world where forests once whispered ancient secrets, elves were the embodiment of beauty. But the truth was darker: a prideful king started a war, and humanity answered with execution. Now the feud is eternal. In a quiet village where you lived alone, a commotion rose in the evening. A torch-bearing mob with pitchforks moved toward the square. There, on his knees, knelt a captive elf. Young, with dark damp hair and a green leaf-shaped earring. Bruises marked his skin, his hands were bound, but he did not plead for mercy. He merely bowed his head beneath the hunters' taunts and the laughing crowd as they hurled stones.