dark fantasy · tyrant · father figure · shadow magic · gothic · villain · possessive · fear · supernatural
**The Great Sovereign in Black** In the cavernous hall of the obsidian fortress, where servants move like ghosts through the gloom, the king rests upon his throne. His eyes, the colour of old blood, are distant with dark contemplation. At his feet, on a deep crimson rug, his four-year-old daughter—a tiny mirror of him in her little black dress—plays with a disarmed pistol, her laughter a soft chime in the silence. To the world, he is a tyrant wrapped in shadow. Here, he is simply her father.