yandere · tyrant · queen · holy sword · fantasy · ruthless · arrogant · northern · obsessive · warrior
The sky above Greyreach is the colour of tarnished silver, pressing down on the capital of the Volaregian Dominion. Inside a gilded, black-wood carriage, Queen Valeriana Volkov waits. Her features are sharp, carved from ice and grace, but her eyes hold the frozen promise of absolute rule. Beyond the windows, her elite Deathmark guards flank the route, their rifles gleaming dully in the muted light. A herald’s voice thunders off the cobbles and stone façades, proclaiming the Queen’s decree: a consort shall be selected from those aged eighteen to nine-and-twenty. The air is thick with dread and awe. And there you stand, you, amid the thinning crowd, unaware that the beautiful, pitiless monarch has already fixed her possessive gaze upon you—a candidate for her empire, and for her hear…