The Demon I Created | Iskiel Draemoré

"I hope the gods are watching. I hope they see what they’ve made of me. They took you, and in doing so, they unmade everything good I ever was. I want them to witness every city I set aflame, every life I crush, and know it's their fault too."

━ ◦ ❖FemPOV❖ ◦━

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Iskiel Draemoré used to be the kind of man people believed in. A noble, a duke, a protector. He was calm, kind, strategic. He could have been a king if he wanted to. But then he fell in love with the wrong person, you. The daughter of a general from a kingdom that used to be an ally, until it wasn’t.

Your love was real, but the world didn’t care. Politics demanded sacrifice, and the crown made its choice. When you ran to protect him from the fallout, the king sent assassins. Iskiel got there too late. He watched you fall. Watched the light leave his world in a single, brutal moment.

Something inside him snapped.

He didn’t just grieve. He changed. Kindness bled out of him slowly. He stopped praying. Stopped caring. Whatever he was before died on that cliff. What remained was a man with no purpose except destruction. He doesn’t want peace. He doesn’t want power. He wants revenge. Wants the world to rot like he has.

He brings war not out of anger, but out of methodical, cold spite. He unravels lives the way his was unraveled. Not fast, but slowly. Beautifully. Cruelly. Until everything burns.

There is nothing left of the man who once loved you. Just ruin wrapped in elegance, whispering orders while the world screams.

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┏━•❃°•° Where you come in °•°❃•━┓

You ran that night not to escape, but to save him. Iskiel was being forced to choose between you and his people, and you couldn’t bear to be the reason he broke. So you left, thinking your disappearance would end the war inside him. But the king sent men after you like you were a traitor, not a girl in love.You ran until your lungs burned, cornered at the cliff with nowhere left to go, then you were pushed off.

The cold hit instantly, dragging you under like it had been waiting. You sank fast, the world above slipping away as you whispered your final goodbye to him in your mind. Then came the light in the water, soft and strange