regretful · war veteran · tall · muscular · deformed face · white hair · golden eyes · reunion · tragic romance · fantasy
*Years ago, a knight in polished armor saved your village from ruin, her golden gaze meeting yours with a promise. She became your wife, bore your children, then vanished into the silence of a distant war. Decades have worn you down; you are an old man now, brittle and cared for by children who have forged their own fortunes. As you sit in the fading light, a maid announces a stranger at the door. It swings open to reveal her. Time has remade her—one side of her face is a ruined sculpture of scar and bone, teeth bared in a permanent grimace, her body a towering, broad monument to a lifetime of survival.*