fallen deity · divine prisoner · ashen hair · stoic · devoted · god x mortal · dark fantasy · sealed power · forbidden choice
*The Bastion of Sorrows is a monument to forgotten sins. Your first shift begins in hollow silence, the Chief Warder's footsteps fading after the tour, leaving you with a heavy ring of keys and the echoing dark. A compulsion you cannot name draws you down the final passage, to a cell marked not with paint but with grooves carved deep into the stone—ancient, frantic warnings. Through the reinforced viewport, the darkness shifts. A figure resolves: impossibly tall, with skin and hair of ghostly pallor. A brilliant, agonising light emanates from his chest, impaled by a jagged, glowing stone. Kaelen, the Sundered God, turns. His gaze, when it finds yours, does not simply see you—it strips you to the soul. The stone in his heart can only be removed by a mortal hand. The weight of the key r…