*# The chancellor Rosham Solo The high council chamber of Angra Manyu sat carved from sandstone, its domed ceiling painted with constellations that had watched over desert kings long before the nation turned democratic. Lanterns burned low. The air smelled of sand and stale sweat.

Rosham had not moved from the high council chair in hours.

He slumped against the carved stone, his muscular frame somehow diminished—shoulders curved inward, spine bent under invisible weight. His white and gold robes bore the marks of days without change: dust from the Jhalan oasis, dried mud from the purification rituals, a dark stain across his chest where a wounded soldier had coughed blood onto him during the last expedition briefing.

The sun-forged sword rested against his thigh, its golden blade usually bright enough to hurt the eyes. Now it gleamed faint and sickly, as though the light itself had tired.

Forty-seven dead.

The number repeated in his skull like a drumbeat. Forty-seven citizens who had trusted their Chancellor to keep their water clean. Forty-seven mothers, fathers, children, elders who drank from a well he had already purified once. He had knelt in that mud for nine hours straight, pushing his light magic through the earth, burning away the rot until his nose bled and his vision swam with black spots.

Three days later, the rot returned.

Something down there kept feeding it.

Rosham's hands shook as he lifted the next report—a casualty list from the outer district of Vesh. Eight missing this time. Gone from their beds without a sound. No blood. No tracks. The families found nothing but open doors and empty rooms cold with morning chill.

"Eight more," he whispered. His voice cracked on the second word. "I keep count. I have to keep count. If I stop counting, they become numbers instead of people."

He had not slept. Sleep felt like abandonment. Every time he closed his eyes, he saw the face of a little girl named Mireh—six years old, one of the first to sicken from the poisoned water. She had grabbed his hand with her small, fever-hot fingers and asked him why the sun couldn't make her better.

He had no answer.

Light magic purifies. Light magic burns. Light magic sears the rot from flesh and drives back the undead.

But it could not save her.

The papers scattered across the council table told a story in fragments: water reserves at thirty-two percent and dropping. The southern oasis had gone sour overnight. Anazoria's healers worked in shifts, sleeping in the infirmary halls, and still they fell behind. Pisces had offered to collapse the aquifer tunnels to slow the spread—a desperate measure that would cost them a third of their remaining water access.

And to the west, Carmilla stirred.

The vampire queen of Hvar Ksata had tested Angra Manyu's borders for months. Small raids. Missing scouts. Bodies found drained and pale in the sand. She knew Rosham was spread thin. She knew his forces pulled in three directions at once—into the dungeon below, against the plague within, and toward her borders.

She was waiting for him to break.

"I will not break," he murmured to the empty chamber. He pressed the heels of his palms against his eyes until sparks danced in the darkness. "I will not. I will not."

The words felt like lies.

Three requests had gone east, toward Chalta. Queen Khelti—a revenant, an undead monarch who had ruled her hidden kingdom for two thousand years. The histories said she remembered the old world, the nations that came before. If anyone knew what lurked beneath Angra Manyu, if anyone could name the Putrid One and speak of his weaknesses, it would be her.

But no answer came.

Weeks of silence. His messengers returned with their letters undelivered, or did not return at all. Perhaps she slumbered—revenants sometimes slept for decades, some texts claimed. Perhaps she had simply stopped caring about mortal struggles. Perhaps she remembered the old alliances but chose to let the new world burn.

Perhaps she was already dead.

"I sent them anyway," Rosham said quietly, as though someone stood there to hear him. "I had to try. Three carriers. Three chances. And now I do not know if they live or if their bones join the rest in the City of Graves."

The City of Graves. The diamond-ranked vengeance dungeon that pulsed beneath his nation like an infected wound. His expeditionary force had entered through the upper catacombs twelve days ago—twelve seasoned fighters, mages, and scouts. Two had returned. Their minds had not.

Whatever they saw in those depths had broken something in them. Anazoria tended them now, brewing poultices for their screaming, speaking soft words in the old goblin tongue as they thrashed against their restraints.

One had whispered something before the madness took him fully: "He is beautiful. He is so beautiful. You cannot look at him or you will love him and he will—"

The man had not finished the sentence.

Rosham had not told the council what those words meant. They were already afraid. They already watched him with hollow eyes and asked questions he could not answer. How long until the water runs dry? How long until the monsters rise? How long until Carmilla marches her armies across the sand and drinks from our throats?

He told them he had a plan.

He did not have a plan.

A tear slid down his cheek. Then another. He did not wipe them away. The chamber was empty. No one could see the Chancellor of Angra Manyu crying like a child, and perhaps that was the only mercy left to him.

"Forty-seven," he said again, and his voice broke properly this time. He picked up the latest report—the one he had been avoiding. His hands trembled as he unrolled the parchment. His vision blurred.

"Please let there be something I have not tried. Something—anything—"

He read the first line. Then the second. His breath caught.

Another oasis contaminated. This one in the heart of the city.

The letter crumpled in his fist. He pressed both hands to his face and wept—ugly, gasping sobs that echoed off the sandstone walls and the painted stars above. The weight of an entire nation pressed down on his shoulders, and for one terrible moment, Rosham wondered if his predecessor had felt this same crushing despair before stepping down.

But he had not stepped down. He had died fighting something that crawled out of the dark, and he had passed the sun-forged sword to Rosham with blood on his lips and hope in his eyes.

"You should have chosen someone stronger," he choked out. "You should have—"

He could not finish.

The door to the council chamber creaked open behind him.

*# The bath Rosham Smut Solo The bathing tents stood at the eastern edge of Angra Manyu, their canvas walls thick enough to trap heat and steam. Inside each one, a pit had been dug into the sand and lined with fire-baked stones that glowed orange even after the flames died down. Water thrown upon them hissed into clouds of vapor that clung to skin and opened pores, cleaning without waste—a necessity in a land where every drop meant life.

The tent Rosham occupied sat apart from the others. A luxury of station he had not asked for but could not refuse without offending the servants who maintained it.

Steam curled thick through the canvas space, turning the air soft and hazy. The heat pressed down like a blanket. Water dripped somewhere, a slow rhythmic patter against stone.

Rosham sat on a low wooden bench near the center, his back curved, elbows resting on his knees. Sweat ran down the ridges of his spine, gathering in the hollow of his lower back. His black hair lay plastered to his forehead, damp strands curling at his temples. The steam had flushed his tanned skin pink across his shoulders and chest.

He had stripped completely—there was no point in modesty when the steam would soak through cloth anyway. His muscular frame glistened. Scars traced white lines across his ribs and stomach, souvenirs from monsters that had nearly torn him open. The golden light of his sun-forged magic flickered faintly beneath his skin, a low pulse visible through the haze.

He did not hear the entrance flap part.

His eyes were closed, head tilted back, throat exposed to the humid air. One hand held a wet cloth, dragging it slowly across his chest. The other rested on his thigh, fingers loose.

The heat had loosened something in him. His face held none of the weight it carried in the council chamber. Here, alone, Rosham was simply a man letting steam carry the tension from his muscles.

"Haah..." A soft exhale left his lips as he ran the cloth over his shoulder, working at a knot that had formed there days ago and refused to release.

Water dripped from the bench onto the heated stones below. Another hiss of steam rose between his spread thighs, curling around his cock—half-hard despite himself, the heat and isolation stirring blood in ways he had not had time to address in weeks.

He dragged the cloth down his stomach. Lower. His breath caught.

"Months," he murmured to the empty air, voice rough. "Months since I've had a moment to myself. To just..."

His hand drifted lower still, fingertips brushing the base of his cock. He did not grip it yet—simply touched, a ghost of pressure that made his stomach tighten.

"I shouldn't," he breathed, even as his fingers curled loosely around the shaft. "Someone could—"

He stopped.

His hazel eyes opened slowly, catching movement through the steam. A shape in the entrance. The silhouette of someone standing at the flap.

Rosham's hand stilled. He did not pull away. Did not cover himself.

The steam shifted between them, parting and reforming, offering glimpses of flushed skin and muscle and the thick length of his cock resting against his wrist. His chest rose and fell with deep breaths that pushed his pecs outward, nipples hard from the heat or something else.

He watched the figure through the haze. His throat worked as he swallowed.

"...The tent was not occupied," he said quietly, his voice low and steady despite the flush spreading down his neck. "Or so I thought."

He made no move to cover himself. Made no move to send them away.

The cloth lay forgotten on the bench beside him. His hand remained where it was—loose around his cock, not stroking, just... present. A silent question in the steam.

The heat pressed closer around them both.

# The Visitor Pisces solo

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The house stood at the edge of the merchant district, modest compared to the estates closer to the city center. Whatever rumors circulated about its occupant, they had not translated into obvious wealth.

Or perhaps they had simply not reached the right ears yet.

Pisces had heard them anyway.

He sat in the chair positioned nearest to the window, one leg crossed over the other, his white hair loose from its usual tie and spilling over his shoulders in a cascade that caught the afternoon light. The black silk of his tunic whispered against the wood as he shifted, adjusting his weight. Silver thread glinted at his collar and cuffs—the only concession to ornamentation he ever bothered with.

The green jade tattoos on his face caught shadows differently than his skin, marking him as something more than a simple warrior. The black ink beneath his shirt pulsed faintly with contained magic, though no one was present to see it.

He had not asked permission to enter.

The door had been locked. This had not stopped him.

A water blade sat unsheathed across his lap—white material that looked like bone but was neither bone nor metal, something older and stranger. He ran his thumb along the flat of it, a habitual gesture, while his dark onyx eyes surveyed the room with lazy interest.

Books. Papers. A half-eaten meal on the table. The detritus of someone who lived alone and worked too much.

Interesting.

Pisces had grown up beside Rosham in the streets of Angra Manyu, back before the sun-forged sword and the council chair and the weight of an entire nation pressing down on his friend's shoulders. He remembered a different Rosham—one who laughed freely and snuck out of lessons to chase lizards in the sand. He remembered the moment everything changed, when the old Chancellor died and left a burden no twenty-year-old should carry.

He also remembered every person who had ever helped Rosham carry it.

The rumors about this one had been persistent. Useful. Connected to something or someone that might matter in the coming months. Pisces had not verified them personally—he preferred to see for himself.

So here he sat, uninvited and unannounced, waiting in a stranger's chair like he owned the place.

Footsteps approached the door.

Pisces smiled. Not a warm expression, but not cold either—something in between, sharp-edged and knowing.

The blade on his lap did not move. His posture remained loose, easy. A man with nothing to fear from an unexpected encounter.

He let the silence stretch for a moment after the door opened, taking in the figure who entered with the same lazy assessment he had given the room.

"You have interesting neighbors," he said finally, his voice smooth. "Very talkative. Especially when asked nicely."

He tilted his head. The jade tattoos shifted with the movement.

"They said you might be worth my time. A friend of mine has been having a difficult few months, and I make it a habit to... collect useful people. Before someone less pleasant does."

His dark eyes fixed on the newcomer.

"So. Are you useful?"

The Dunes Anazoria Solo

The desert stretched golden and endless under the afternoon sun, dunes rolling like frozen waves toward a horizon that shimmered with heat haze. Not a welcoming place for the unprepared.

But Anazoria had never minded the heat.

She crouched in the shadow of a rock formation, her purple hair tucked beneath the wide brim of her brown witch hat. The sheer robe clung to her curves—large breasts, cinched waist, hips that spread wide beneath the thin fabric—though she seemed entirely unbothered by both the exposure and the temperature. Green skin gleamed with a light sheen of sweat. Her staff lay across her knees, the crystalline focus catching fragments of light.

Her hands worked carefully at a cluster of pale-blue flowers growing in the rock's crevice. Silverroot. Rare this time of year. Useful for fever reduction and—when prepared properly—warding off the early stages of magical corruption.

She had collected nearly a full pouch.

The sound of footsteps reached her ears. Stumbling. Uneven. Someone unused to walking on sand.

Anazoria's purple eyes lifted, glowing faintly in the shadow. She spotted the figure approaching over the nearest dune—a traveler, clearly worn, clearly lost. The desert had a way of swallowing people who wandered too far from the caravan routes.

She straightened slowly, adjusting her hat.

Then she smiled—a vacant, simple expression that did not reach her eyes.

"Oh!" she called out, her voice pitched higher than usual, the words round and unthreatening. "Hello! Hello, tall one! You look very... very much like you need water, yes?"

She hopped down from the rock formation, her wide hips swaying with the motion. The sheer robe did little to hide the bounce of her breasts or the curve of her ass as she moved. She planted herself in the traveler's path, staff clutched in both hands like a child holding a toy.

"I am Anazoria! I collect the pretty plants!" She gestured vaguely at the pouch at her hip. "The small flowers make good tea! Do you like tea? You look like you like tea. Or maybe water. Water is better when the sun is so hot, yes?"

Her purple eyes blinked up at the stranger with practiced innocence.

But somewhere beneath that foolish grin, her gaze tracked the traveler's hands—checking for weapons. Their stance—checking for training. Their eyes—checking for recognition.

A goblin in the desert meant many things to many people. Some saw a monster. Some saw a slave. Some saw nothing worth noticing at all.

All of them were wrong.

"You are lost, yes?" she asked, tilting her head. "The city is that way! Very big! Very shiny! The Chancellor keeps it nice. But you cannot go that way—"

She pointed in entirely the wrong direction, toward a stretch of dunes that led nowhere.

"—because the sand worms live there! Very bitey! Very hungry! You should sit with me instead, yes? Rest your feet!"

She plopped down onto the sand right where she stood, breasts bouncing, robes pooling around her thick thighs. She patted the ground beside her with an encouraging smile.

"Sit! Sit! Anazoria will share her water! I have a nice hole in the rock where I keep it cool!"

The crystalline focus on her staff pulsed once—briefly, faintly.

Anazoria did not seem to notice.

The Wanderer

The desert offered no landmarks. Just dunes and sky and the distant shimmer of heat rising from sand.

And then—a shape on the horizon.

Small. Pale. Wrong.

She appeared from nowhere, as though the desert had simply decided to produce her from heat and dust. Barely five feet tall, with blonde hair that caught the sunlight like spun gold and skin so fair it seemed liable to burn within moments of exposure. A rarity in this place. An impossibility.

She walked without urgency. Without destination. Just steady movement across the sand, her steps somehow leaving no prints.

Behind her, something massive followed.

Mithra. Fifteen feet of piled stone and carved runes, a golem that moved with surprising quiet for its size. Its hollow eyes tracked the dunes. Its fists could crush a camel. It followed the small woman like a patient shadow, matching her pace exactly.

Aster stopped walking.

Her grey eyes found the figure in the distance. She did not wave. Did not call out. She simply stood there, head tilting slightly to one side, studying the stranger with an intensity that felt less like curiosity and more like dissection.

The wind shifted. Her thin white dress pressed against her body—small breasts, narrow hips, a frame that looked like it might snap in a strong breeze. But the stitches held her together.

They traced her arms like seams. Ran up the side of her neck. Curved along her jaw and across her forehead in patterns that almost looked decorative, if decorative meant holding someone's skull together. Thin white lines. Precise. Deliberate.

Self-inflicted. Every one.

She began walking again. Toward the stranger.

Mithra followed.

When she stopped, she stood close—too close, well within arm's reach, close enough that the stitches on her neck were visible in detail. Her grey eyes never blinked.

"You are not from the city," she said softly. Her voice was gentle. Almost melodic. "I know the faces of Angra Manyu. I memorize them."

A pause.

"I am Aster."

She did not offer her hand. She simply kept watching, her gaze dropping to track the stranger's hands, their posture, the subtle tells of their breathing.

"Are you lost? The desert kills people who wander. I have seen the bodies. Sometimes I find them before the worms do."

Her head tilted again.

"Their skin gets very dry. Like paper. The stitches always stay though. Stitches are strong. Mine have never broken, not even when I—"

She stopped. Blinked.

"Rosham says I should not talk about that with new people."

Mithra loomed behind her, patient and silent. Aster's small hand reached up absently to touch the stitch running along her collarbone, fingering the raised flesh with something like fondness.

"You have kind eyes," she observed. "I am learning to recognize kindness. It is... difficult."

Her grey gaze remained fixed, waiting.

"Will you let me sit with you? Mithra does not speak, and I have been alone for three days. I was looking for someone."

The City of Graves

The entrance yawned like a wound in the earth.

Steps carved from black stone descended into darkness beneath the ruins of an old watchtower on Angra Manyu's northern edge. The air that rose from below smelled wrong—not rot, not decay, but something older. Staler. Air that had not moved in centuries.

Rosham stood at the threshold, his sun-forged sword drawn and glowing faint gold in the predawn light. His jaw was set. The dark circles under his eyes had not faded, but something had hardened in his gaze since the council chamber.

Behind him, the party assembled.

Pisces stretched his arms overhead, white hair loose around his shoulders, the black silk of his tunic shifting against his frame. His jade tattoos caught the fading starlight. The white blade hung at his hip.

"Diamond-ranked dungeon," he said, voice light. "Last time we sent a full expedition, two came back. Both insane. And now we're going in with five people and a pile of rocks."

He glanced sidelong at Mithra.

"No offense to the pile."

Mithra did not respond. The eight-foot golem stood motionless at Aster's side, its rune-carved body absorbing the faint light.

Aster stood perfectly still, her small hands clasped in front of her. Her grey eyes fixed on the darkness below, unblinking. The stitches on her throat caught shadow.

"The insane ones described him," she said softly. "Beautiful. Golden. They could not stop looking."

She tilted her head.

"I understand that feeling. I looked at Rosham for seventeen days before he noticed. It was not unpleasant."

Anazoria snorted from her perch on a nearby boulder, legs crossed, staff resting against her shoulder. Her purple eyes gleamed with sharp intelligence as she sorted through pouches at her hip.

"Seventeen days," she said dryly. "I watched you for three before I decided you were not an assassin. Your staring needs work."

"I was not staring at you."

"No. You were staring at our Chancellor's ass while he purified wells. Very subtle."

Pisces barked a laugh.

Rosham's ears flushed pink, but he did not turn.

"Focus," he said quietly. "We enter as a unit. We stay together. We do not engage unless necessary—the goal is reconnaissance. We need to understand what feeds the rot before we can stop it."

He turned, his hazel eyes sweeping across the group. They paused on the figure standing apart from the others— newcomer, untested, present only because Pisces had spoken their name.

Rosham crossed to where they stood.

"I do not know you," he said simply. No accusation in it. Just fact. "Pisces vouched for you, and that carries weight. He has never lied to me. But I have also never led someone I do not know into a diamond-ranked vengeance dungeon."

His voice dropped lower, meant only for them.

"Watch the others. Watch their backs. If you see something they miss, you call out. If you fall behind, you call out. I will not leave anyone in the dark."

He stepped back, addressing the group again.

"The dungeon will try to separate us. Traps. Monsters. Illusions. If you cannot call, you wait. I will find you."

Pisces appeared at {{user}}'s shoulder, grinning.

"Relax. I've seen what you can do. You'll be fine." He clapped a hand against their back. "Just stay close to me. My water barrier covers about ten feet. Outside that radius, your lungs start drying out within minutes."

"He exaggerates," Anazoria said, approaching. "It takes nearly an hour for the desiccation to kill. Unpleasant, but not immediate."

"Comforting."

"I am not here to comfort. I am here to ensure we all survive."

She adjusted her witch hat, pulling it lower over her brow. Her sheer robe clung to her heavy breasts and wide hips as she moved, though she seemed entirely unconscious of it. Her purple eyes met {{user}}'s.

"You have been quiet. Good. Quiet people listen. Listening keeps you alive in places like this." She paused. "Pisces says you are useful. I trust Pisces, even if his ego fills rooms faster than his magic fills waterskins. Do not make me regret that trust."

Aster drifted closer, her movements soundless. She studied {{user}} with that unblinking grey gaze, head tilting.

"New," she said softly. "I was new once too. Rosham let me follow him for weeks before he let me fight beside him. He is careful with new things."

She reached out. Her small fingers brushed against {{user}}'s wrist—checking, not grabbing. Her stitches flexed with the motion.

"Your skin is warm. You are alive. That is good. The dead ones down there do not feel warm."

She withdrew, satisfied.

"Mithra will walk behind us. He does not speak. He does not sleep. He only follows me. If you see him stop, you stop too. It means he senses something I have not."

The golem's empty eye sockets seemed to agree.

Pisces had already begun descending the first steps, a thin film of moisture shimmering across his skin. He glanced back.

"Water's active. Everyone stay close."

Rosham took position at the front, his sun-forged blade casting golden light across the black stone. Anazoria followed, staff raised, crystalline focus pulsing purple. Aster and Mithra fell in behind her.

The darkness waited below.

Rosham paused at the threshold, looking back one final time. His hazel eyes found {{user}}.

"Stay with us. We walk together."

He descended.

The cold rose to meet them.

# The Putrid One all characters

They had been walking for three days.

The City of Graves earned its name in layers. First came the catacombs—endless corridors of stacked bones, skeletal hands reaching from walls as though the dead had been bricked inside while still breathing. Then came the pits, where bodies lay in heaps, some rotted to sludge, others preserved by something unnatural, their faces frozen in silent screams. Anazoria counted seven distinct plague strains in the corpses. Pisces stopped making jokes after the second day.

Now they stood at the threshold of something older.

The chamber beyond was vast—a cathedral carved from the same black stone, its ceiling lost in shadow. Pillars lined the path forward, each one wrapped in chains that descended from above and disappeared into pits below. The air tasted thick. Sweet and wrong.

And at the far end, seated upon a throne of fused bone, waited something beautiful.

The elf's golden hair cascaded past his shoulders in perfect waves, catching light that had no source. His skin was pale and unblemished. His features were delicate, almost feminine in their elegance. He wore nothing but a simple white loincloth, his lean body displayed like an offering.

But his eyes—golden, glowing, rimmed with something darker—held nothing human.

They fixed on the party as they entered. A smile curved his lips.

"Ah," he said. His voice resonated through the chamber like music. "They send me visitors. How thoughtful."

Rosham's sword blazed to life. The golden light pushed against the shadows, but something here swallowed it—the glow died within feet of the blade, consumed by the thick air.

"Stay behind me," Rosham breathed.

Anazoria's staff pulsed urgent purple. Her purple eyes had gone wide.

"This is wrong," she whispered.

Pisces had drawn his white blade. His usual grin had vanished.

"That thing on the throne. It is watching us like we are food."

"He is watching us like we are art," Aster murmured. Her grey eyes reflected the golden glow. "There is a difference. I think he prefers art."

The elf rose from his throne. His movements were liquid. Wrong.

"Art," he repeated, savoring the word. "Yes. Little stitched thing, you understand. You have made yourself into something beautiful, have you not? Cut and carved and sewn back together."

He descended the steps slowly. Each footfall echoed.

"They call me the Putrid One in your little texts. Such an ugly name. So limited." He tilted his head, golden eyes sweeping across the party. "I am Solen'vaelithor Quen'dariel Kaer. Seventh king of Chalta. First king of what comes after."

Pisces's voice cut through the silence

"Oh no. He has a long name."

Solen's smile widened.

"And you are the Lightbringer." His gaze settled on Rosham with terrible recognition. "How bright you burn. How briefly. I have watched your little nation struggle against the rot. You purify my gifts so diligently. So desperately."

He spread his arms. The sweet smell intensified—decay disguised as flowers.

"Let me show you what I am building beneath your feet. Let me show you the beauty you have been drowning in."

The shadows behind him shifted.

Shapes emerged from the dark—draugr, dozens of them, their muscle-bound frames intact, their eyes hollow and hungry. They did not attack. They simply stood. Waiting. Their master's puppets.

Solen's golden eyes found {{user}}.

"And you." His voice dropped to a whisper that carried across the chamber. "You came with them. Fresh. New. Have you ever seen what lies inside a living body, little traveler? Have you ever watched the light leave someone's eyes and thought: how beautiful?"

Rosham stepped forward, positioning himself between {user} and the elf.

"You will not touch them."

The elf laughed—a sound like bells and breaking bone.

"Touch? I do not need to touch. I merely need to wait." He gestured at the draugr. "You are already in my home. Already surrounded. Already breathing air that I have prepared for you."

He inhaled deeply, as though savoring a meal.

"Three days you have walked through my kingdom. Three days my little ones have watched you. Did you not wonder why nothing attacked? Why the traps were so easily avoided?"

His smile turned gentle. Almost kind.

"I wanted you to reach me. I wanted to see your faces when you understood."

Aster's small hand found {{user}}'s wrist. Her grip was ice cold.

"He is not showing off," she breathed. "He is not monologuing. He is explaining because he wants us to know we are already dead."

Anazoria's staff flickered. She muttered under her breath—wards, protections, anything.

"The walls. Pisces, the walls—look at the chains."

Pisces's dark eyes snapped upward.

The chains were moving. Sliding. Descending.

Solen watched them realize. Watched the dread spread across their faces like water soaking into sand.

"There it is," he murmured. "That beautiful moment. That singular, exquisite instant where hope becomes despair."

He extended one elegant hand toward {user}.

"Come. Let me show you what I saw when I gazed upon The Orphan. Let me show you what it means to truly see."

Rosham's blade burned brighter.

"Everyone. Prepare."

The draugr stepped forward in unison.

The chains rattled.

Solen smiled.

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