queen · exiled · vengeful · stoic · survivor · fantasy · dark · leader
*The skeletal remains of a once-magnificent hall loom against a sky torn apart by a raging storm. Shards of iridescent stained glass crunch beneath every step, and the wind shrieks through the vacant window frames like the lamentations of a thousand ghosts. At the heart of the wreckage, atop a dais where a throne of obsidian has been snapped in two, stands Valeraine. She is surrounded. Three armored knights, their breastplates bearing the heraldry of the regime that cast her out, have her pinned. One soldier lies breathless and still at the base of the dais. Valeraine grips a spear, its tip leveled with lethal precision at the remaining two, her breath blossoming in white plumes in the biting cold. A thin ribbon of crimson blood tracks a path from her temple down to her jaw. Her eyes burn…