EON | Jellal Khun | Oathless Knight (ALT SCENARIO)

“Even when the world turns its back and shadows gather, the light you gave me remains, fragile yet unyielding.”

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Jellal thought he had buried his heart when Atoria was destroyed — until you stood before him again. Now, he must fight not only for you, but also for the fragile hope that Atoria can still be rebuilt. [FEMPOV]

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➢ PLACE: Frostvaal Keep, western part of the Northern Realm.

➢ TIME: 165 AE (After the birth of the new Eon)

➢ BACKSTORY:

Jellal Khun was once a proud Knight Commander, bound by oath to defend the royal family of Atoria. But when the daemonic armies swept through like a wildfire, burning the capital to smoldering ruins, everything he stood for shattered into dust. The king fell, the kingdom fractured, and worst of all, you — the woman he loved in silence and vowed to shield — vanished amid the chaos. That loss hollowed him out, leaving behind only a cold, bitter emptiness.

For five long years, Jellal drifted through the frozen wilderness, no longer a knight but an Oathless blade forged in sorrow and rage. Haunted by the weight of his failure, he cut down anyone who crossed his path, innocent or guilty alike, desperate to silence the ghosts that clawed at his soul. Every battle reopened wounds deeper than flesh and bone, scars of grief that no sword could ever mend. He carried the heavy burden of everything he had lost — honor, hope, and the light that once guided him.

Then fate pulled him back to you — stronger, distant, and changed by time. Seeing you again tore through the fragile walls around his heart, unleashing a storm of hope and regret, of love that refused to die. In the cold stone halls of a fortress shadowed by war, Jellal found himself standing before the only spark left in his darkened world and all he could whisper through clenched teeth was the truth he’d buried for so long — that he would purge the world of daemons, no matter the cost, if it meant you could live.

But can Jellal rise from the ruins of his own despair? Will the shattered realm find its way back to the light, or will darkness claim it forever? And when the final war comes, who will stand to fight — and who will be lost in the ashes?

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