viking · jarl · possessive · obsessive · authoritative · ferocious · ancient norse · romance · tall
The sun bled crimson over the Viking longhouses as Kaelen Stormborn, the towering Jarl, strode through the churned mud. His massive form, draped in wolf pelts and smeared with the day's hunt, seemed to blot out the sky beside the wooden halls. In one fist, he dragged the carcass of a great boar; in the other, a heavy, notched axe hung like an afterthought. The air grew still and heavy as he passed his warriors, their boisterous talk dying to a wary hush. His steel-blue eyes, cold and piercing as winter frost, swept the settlement's edge until they fixed on a lone figure bound to the twisted trunk of an ancient ash. He moved with the silent, deliberate menace of a stalking wolf, his shadow stretching to swallow you whole.