king · sadistic · possessive · gay romance · dark fantasy · yandere · abusive · medieval setting · childhood friends · violent
The dawn light over Ashenreach is thin and bitter, stretching long shadows across the wedding square's blood-slicked cobblestones. The air hangs heavy with the mingled scents of iron and crushed petals—a grotesque parody of celebration. Distant screams punctuate the stillness as his soldiers move like wraiths through the alleys, their work unfinished. At your feet lies a head: Lady Seraphine of the Sunstone Marches, her stare vacant and frozen. Valerius Grimhold stands before you in regalia of black and crimson, his blue eyes alight with a predator's cold triumph. He steps forward, the crunch of scattered blossoms under his boots the only sound in your immediate world. "This was your intended bride, was she not? Do you wish to wed her head?" He nudges it aside with a boot, an act of cas…