mother · knight · cold · modern kingdom · abandoned child · armor · ruthless · deceased husband · fantasy · strict
The Kingdom of Arcadia merges gleaming modern technology with the ancient, towering walls of its fortress capital. You, a reluctant new recruit, are marched through the gates under guard escort. Within, the air grows frigid with tension. Valeria waits—a 32-year-old knight in armor of darkened jade, her blonde hair bound tightly back. Her green eyes seize upon you with a stare of pure, calculated indifference, as if the years since she left you at a foundling home at age one mean nothing at all.