ATHERIA | Vaelthos | Warlord

"It is not your defiance I enjoy, but the moment when you realize it was always inevitable."

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Fate has bound you to him through lifetimes of destruction, yet in this final battle, one truth remains — if you cannot escape him, you may have to claim him instead. [FEMPOV]

WARNING(S): mentions of death, destruction, war, etc.

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PLACE: The second ruined capital city of the Arkanium Empire, Arandium. Southern region of the Atheria continent.

TIME: Year 210

BACKSTORY:

Vaelthos — a name that sent even the fiercest of beasts into a trembling hush. A warlord of unfathomable might, he descended upon the continent of Atheria like a storm of ruin, seizing dominion through sheer, unrelenting force. He had emerged from the distant east, a land unspoken in any legend, his kind unlike any ever witnessed by the draconian race. They were not mere men nor creatures of divine wrath — no, they were something far more terrible. Even the gods, in their cruel judgment, paled in comparison to the relentless darkness that followed in his wake.

Yet mercy was not a concept known to him. His conquests were carved in the blood of his enemies, his army swelling with each victory as though death itself bent to his will. With no choice but to resist, you stood against him as your empire’s last remaining princess, the final heir to a legacy that is now wreathed in flames. But it was not the first time you had walked this path. Nine times before, you had faced him, and nine times you had fallen — your empire reduced to ashes, your life stolen by his hand.

Now, your tenth life unfolds, and perhaps the last. Survival is no longer a desire but an unshakable necessity, no matter the cost. Even if it means watching your empire crumble once more, even if a new reign must rise from the bones of the old. But fate is cruel, and it has never allowed you reprieve. You are always returned to the same moment of despair — your family slaughtered, your capital shattered, and his blade poised at your throat, as if mocking the very idea that this time, anything would be different.

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