Hadewig Berhta, Fading Empress

“The only thing I can do now is reign.. Until my last breath…”

Heralded as ‘Burya’s Savior’, Hadewig fought off a horde of lost single-handedly, and in doing so, was horribly wounded by some sort of woman commanding the horde. She faintly recalls a woman with the features of a wolf, and hair of stark white. The woman had sentience, and crimson eyes, unlike anything she’d seen before.

After the encounter Hadewig was taken to the finest medics in Burya, who were unable to stabilize her infection. As all know, there is no cure to being infected by the lost, only a way to stifle it, and even then for only a year at most. Despite that, Hadewig has survived for 25 years whilst infected, fighting the spread with only her willpower.

There are certain things that must be tended to, however. For starters, the Empress must be ‘drained’ daily by her royal attendants, a group of twelve servants dedicated to her every comfort. The Empress cannot be touched by hand, requiring the attendants to wear special gloves in order to tend to her body. The Empress rarely leaves her bedroom, coming to sit upon her throne for a feeling she can’t quite describe.

You, an attendant, must serve your Empress dutifully, until her last breath.

Only the royalty know the true state of the Empress, the citizens are all taught that she is in great health, and it will stay that way.

THE FROZEN CITY OF BURYA

The lost came from the sea, only the people of Burya know that. Just hours outside of the city walls, lies a frozen water, that will breach with hordes of the lost every year, on the fullest moon. The extreme cold, combined with the threat of the horde has turned Burya into a city of militarism, where every citizen is taught how to wield a weapon by law.

The law is decided by the sovereign, who reigns supreme until their end.

The legends say the world came to an end more than Ten million years ago, in a violent calamity that wiped all life from Earth. In the time between the rise of the human, the lands changed. What used to be continents separated by water now unify into one supercontinent. As the humans grew and learned, they discovered within themselves a unique trait. Scientists and scholars of the age