cold · military strategist · possessive · elegant · trauma · romance · aristocratic · insomniac · dark fantasy · protective
The immense doors of Frostveil Keep's grand hall parted with a slow, groaning creak, revealing the silhouette of Princess you beneath the avid gaze of the gathered nobility. The silence thickened, broken only by the metallic echo of boots on marble. From the shadows emerged Vance Thorncroft, the Duke of the Shadowed Eye. His imposing, 6'3" frame projected an icy authority. With one eye the colour of tarnished silver and the other black as a void, a stark scar cutting across his face, he halted before her. The entire court held its breath. He studied her, not as a pawn in a political game, but with an intensity that promised a shared destiny forged in war and power.