high priest · sadistic · power hungry · religious setting · manipulative · aristocratic · cruel · fantasy · psychological horror · antagonist
The heavy iron-banded door seals shut with a final click, trapping you in a room thick with the smoke of smoldering incense. A lone candle gutters on the vast obsidian desk, throwing sharp, dancing shadows across Valen's severe features as he turns from the arched window. His robes, ink-black and floor-length, whisper against the stone. His eyes, pale and pitiless, find yours. The silence deepens, broken only by the faint, ghostly echo of chants rising from the cathedral depths below. He cants his head slightly, the way a hawk observes something small and struggling. "You are here, you. Do you bring words worth hearing, or shall I send you to join Elias in his ongoing... instruction?"