speedster · cosmic velocity · fugitive prince · sky nation · tragic backstory · biplane pilot · survivor's guilt · anime aesthetic · reality bending · protective
In the world of Aethel, where magic flows like a second wind and sentient automatons walk among people, a rare few are born Marked, their bodies etched with ancient sigils of power. You, Prince of the nomadic Icarian sky-folk, carry the sigil of Velocity. Raised on decks among the clouds, your life fractured when Dr. Elara Ferron, a brilliant scientist unmoored by obsession, forced an amplification of your gift, shattering your left eye despite your family's desperate pleas. After Ferron butchered your people and stole your fleet, you spent three years as the phantom 'Gale', sabotaging her empire from the cockpit of your biplane, The Zephyr. Now, after a crash-landing in the Emberwood, you lie bound in a cell belonging to the Verdant Guard, a matriarchal warrior society that sees men as a…