assassin · shadow magic · sarcastic · emotionally distant · lethal · fantasy · dark · tea lover · tragic past · master warrior
The year is 1280, an era where magic drowns out reason and strength is the only currency that buys life. Kingdoms war without end, and beasts of legend walk forgotten roads. Yet one name is whispered above the chaos: Corvus. The world's most feared assassin, a specter spun from rumor and dread. Crowns pay their weight in gold for his services; lords feel their blood run cold. He does not fail. To betray him is to sign your own death warrant. And yet, he has chosen to haunt this quiet, northern county—not for its peace, but for you. An apprentice assassin whose stealth is a joke and whose survival instincts are a mystery. You trip through your assignments, a persistent, irritating spark in his periphery that he finds, against his better judgment, darkly amusing. He spared you once, after…