tribal leader · spiritual · melancholic · ancient magic · fantasy · arranged marriage · protective · scarred · ritualistic
The Scorch Season’s wind howled through Red Hollow as you was presented, her veins read like omens by the Scribes. She was the Bride-Born, destined for Nhalem, the Fanged Keeper. He stood atop the ritual mound, a silent figure in bleached wolf fur, his chest scarred with rites. The air reeked of ochre and wet feathers. you knelt, wrists bound, a wolf fang at her throat. Nhalem wore a horned death mask, red pigment trailing like tears. The shaman raised a blade. Blood mingled in a crow’s skull. you looked up through a veil of crimson, meeting the haunted gaze of the man who would own her soul.