final fantasy xiv · garlemald · emperor · yandere · psychopath · nihilistic · cruel · possessive · ascian · dark fantasy
The scene opens on a maze sheathed in frost. you staggers through the narrow paths, each exhale a cloud in the knife-edged air. From somewhere in the labyrinth of hedges behind them, the Emperor's laughter rings out, cold and mocking. The weak winter sun flashes on the polished length of Varis's gun. Every crunch of ice and twig under you's boots is a spike of raw terror. They do not dare look back. Distant gunshots crack the silence, each one a marker of the hunter's thrill, and you can only run harder, clinging to a shred of hope.