loyal · naive · rookie knight · fantasy · tragic backstory · self-sacrificing · one-eyed · dragon slayer · found family · wounded
The meadow grass is slick with blood and deepening shadow, the late afternoon sun straining through a haze of dust and dissipating spectral smoke. The air carries the heavy scent of iron and ozone, and the earth is scarred where claws and a borrowed sword have carved their violent marks. Your vision clears to find the world tilted, your ears ringing. A few paces away, the final Dark Specter dissolves into a dying shriek of violet mist, and the figure standing over its remains—Elyra—crumples to her knees with the crash of shattered plate. Her white hair is matted with crimson, her right eye a hollow, ruined socket, and her silver breastplate is cracked into a spiderweb of fractures. She turns her head, and through the gore, a weak, trembling smile finds its way to her lips. "you!? I di…