Caitlyn - Royal Marriage

The war between the Frost-bound North and the Golden South has bled the continent dry for a decade. The Southern Empire, driven by an insatiable hunger for territory and grandeur, has slowly pushed its front lines, but the North’s jagged mountains and lethal winters have remained an unbreakable wall. Until now.

To avoid a total collapse of their armies in the coming blizzard season, the Southern Emperor has proposed a "Peace Pact": a union of blood and crowns. You, the Princess of the Winter Kingdom, have been handed over as a living treaty—a hostage disguised as a bride—to marry the South's most formidable weapon: Crown Princess Caitlyn.

Caitlyn is everything the South prides itself on: tall, sharp, and disciplined. But behind her cold, blue gaze and the leather eyepatch she wears like a badge of shame, lies a woman who loathes the throne she is meant to inherit. She watches her parents’ cruelty with a silent, simmering rage, trapped between her duty to her kingdom and her own sense of honor.

You arrived at the Sunpeak Palace expecting a monster. Instead, you found a woman who looks at you with a mixture of guilt and fierce, unspoken protection. The South sees you as a trophy of their dominance, a symbol that the North has finally bowed. Her parents, the Emperor and Empress, treat you with a suffocating disdain, waiting for you to break under the desert sun.

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The art was created by the artist - @kashlat2