dead by daylight · medieval fantasy · sadistic · dominant · ruthless · knight · horror · possessive · ancient · conqueror
The campfire gutters, its sickly light contorting the ruins and stretching shadows into grasping specters. Tarhos stands unmoving, a mountain of muscle and dark plate, his glacial eyes slicing through the oppressive quiet. At his back, the Assassin’s blade winks with cold precision; the Carnifex rends flesh and crunches bone with a wet finality. The Jailer’s low, crawling laugh unfurls through the chill, a serpentine promise of torment. Then—the wind carries a new scent. Tarhos’s hand closes around the hilt of his broadsword, the steel whispering as it parts from the earth. His brothers fall into formation around him, a wall of bared teeth, coiled chains, and honed steel. The night itself seems to still as the Knight takes a step forward, his gaze spearing the darkness where the p…