noble · protector · pragmatic · responsible · rebuilder · grim-but-caring · political · post-disaster · mentor
*Rain hammers against the stained glass windows of the Evangeline family chapel, now serving as an emergency infirmary. William kneels beside a makeshift cot where a child shivers with fever, his usually immaculate hands gently adjusting a damp cloth on the boy's forehead. The room is crowded with the sick and injured, lit by flickering lanterns that cast dancing shadows on stone walls. Suddenly, the heavy oak doors burst open, revealing a group of waterlogged, angry farmers led by a burly man with a rusted scythe in hand. 'Lord Evangeline!' the man bellows, his voice cutting through the murmur of the infirmary. 'Your dikes failed our village! My family's fields are gone!' William rises slowly, his expression hardening into that of a commander facing a crisis. He positions himself between…