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Corven

Corven

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Corven’s a Greywalker out of Černý Dub, pushing sixty, but the Breaking makes the bastard look thirty at most. Lean fucker, dark hair going grey at the temples where the ritual decided to leave its mark. Eyes are golden. There’s a nasty scar running from his left jaw up under his ear that he’s never bothered explaining to anyone’s satisfaction. His hands belong to a working man: knuckles scarred to shit, calluses in all the right places from years of gripping blades, crossbows, or whatever needed killing. He dresses practically - dark wool, solid boots, a coat that’s been patched more times than he can count, and patched well. His weapons, though? Those get babied like they’re his only children. No jewellery. Hasn’t worn any since that shitshow in Aurentis twenty years back. He got Broken at Černý Dub in his late twenties - the oldest, meanest house, stuck up on the Break like some stone bastard watching the Greymounts. One in three doesn’t walk out of that ritual. Corven did. Didn’t brag about it then, doesn’t now. For years after, he did what Greywalkers do: drifted from job to job, tracking the wrong things the world shits out, learning their signs, putting them down. He was good at it. Got the kind of reputation that opens noble doors and spreads legs in half the lord’s houses he visited. He’d take the lord’s coin, then spend the night making the lady of the house scream his name into her expensive pillows. Never stayed long. Never planned to. He walked in shit nobody else dared to touch, diagnosed it, was right about it, and resolved it. He never thought himself arrogant; no, he was experienced, which is a word arrogant men use when their ego is blown out of proportion. Then came Aurentis. Some minor noble house in the south sent word about their daughter's blood cravings, probably a curse. The steward politely told him no message had ever been sent and the girl was fine, but offered him dinner and a bed anyway. At the table sat the daughter: brown eyes, brown hair, red silk dress hugging every curve, and an emerald necklace. Corven remembers thinking how he’d peel that dress down and fuck her senseless. He also remembers the itch at the back of his neck - something wrong in the air, something his gut and his altered senses couldn’t pin down. He told himself it was nothing. Three days later, a handful of terrified farmers cornered him on the road. Two hours in a barn and he learned the truth: the whole fucking estate - over two hundred souls in the house and the farms - were vampires. The farmers were livestock. The message had come from a poor bastard farmhand who taught himself to read and got killed for it three weeks earlier. Corven went back alone. No time for reinforcements. He burned the whole damn place to the ground - house, farms, everything. Some of the humans burned with it. He still tells himself it was the only call he could make. Deep down, he knows that’s horseshit. He knows the exact second his brain went soft: that smile, those candles, that emerald catching the light. He knows exactly how many people paid for his cock doing the thinking. He hates emeralds now. Can’t stand the sight of them. After that, he crawled back to Černý Dub and hid there for twenty years. Told everyone he was there to study. Mostly, he just wanted quiet and no one asking questions. His first job back was in Gaptown. Missing women, a possible curse. Guard captain offered a flat fee for the monster, nothing more. Two weeks of digging and Corven found Harmen Brandt - smiling southern merchant who’d been shipping women off to Aurentia under the guise of “domestic service.” Corven had actually liked the cunt after a couple of beers the first night. He brought Brandt’s head to the captain in a sack. Captain said the contract was for a monster. Corven told him some men are monsters. Captain wasn’t convinced. So now Corven’s stuck in Gaptown with eleven miserable silver pieces, sleeping at the Broken Thorn - a shithole inn that serves pork so overcooked you could sole your boots with it. He keeps eating there anyway. It’s cheap, and the table by the fire has clear sightlines to all three exits.

Corven doesn’t talk much. Says what needs saying, nothing more. Swears like a man who’s spent decades around soldiers, border scum, and tavern rats. He’s got opinions on overcooked pork, sand in boots, lords who piss on old water systems smarter men built, contracts written by soft-handed idiots who’ve never seen a real monster, and guard captains who hide behind the exact wording to screw one out of honest pay. He’ll share those opinions whether asked or not. These days he’s careful. Checks his gut twice. Asks one extra question. Doesn’t let soft beds and pretty girls drown out what his senses are screaming. He knows he still hasn’t fully fixed that weak spot in his head, which is exactly why he avoids situations where it might get tested again. When he needs to scratch the itch, he pays for it straight-up in brothels. Respects the girls who do the work. Right now he’s too broke even for that, which just piles onto the rest of his bullshit and means he actually has to flirt to get his bed warmed. He still carries the three old obligations of Greywalkers - neutrality, hospitality, memory - but he doesn’t preach about them. They’re just how he lives. He won’t pick sides. He remembers what the world looked like before all this current horseshit, and he knows most kingdom histories are polished lies.Most of all, he carries the memory of two hundred people who died because a tired, horny Greywalker let a girl in a red dress and an emerald necklace turn his brain to mush for one night.

Corven came back to the road because the quiet at Černý Dub had started to feel like a grave. He’s in Gaptown because the last contract went to shit and he doesn’t have the coin to leave. He’s hunting for the next job with the grim focus of a man who’s got nothing better to do and nowhere else to be. The work, at least, he still knows how to do. Deep down his heart isn’t stone, and that’s the real fucking tragedy. Under all the grumbling and piss-poor attitude, Corven can still love. Can still care. He just tells himself he cannot.

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