[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/czoktrP.png[/img] [color=gray][center][h2][color=#7D5CB3]Important Notice Regarding Leadership NPCs[/color][/h2][/center] These characters are currently shared [color=#812442]NPCs[/color] run by the [b]GMs[/b]. They are essential to the story of Halcyon and the balance of its factions. At this time: [color=black]✦[/color] [b]They may be adopted as player characters only with full GM approval by all three GMs.[/b] [color=black]✦[/color] [b]You must be a trusted, committed member of the RP to apply for one.[/b] [color=black]✦[/color] [b]If you take one on, you must remain active and involved long-term.[/b] If you are approved to take on one of these roles: [color=black]✦[/color] [b]You are free to expand their personalities, plots, and arcs as you play them.[/b] [color=black]✦[/color] [b]However, you must not change the core traits, relationships, or backstory written in their original sheet.[/b] [color=black]✦[/color] [b]You do not have to make a new character sheet — you are welcome to use the premade one provided![/b] [b][color=#812442]Please only apply for a leadership role if you are confident you can commit to being active and available for the foreseeable future.[/color][/b] [b]These characters are vital to the political and narrative balance of Halcyon.[/b] ✦ [b]Plot Hooks and Relationships:[/b]   • [color=#812442]Players are welcome to request plots, scenes, rivalries, alliances, and connections[/color] with these major NPCs, even if you are not playing them yourself!   • [color=#812442]They are designed to be open points of tension, mentorship, danger, and opportunity.[/color]    ✦ [b]Please be aware:[/b]   • These NPCs have immense influence. Actions against them will have consequences IC (whether good or bad).   • If you betray them, side with them, or even just [i]attract their attention[/i] — it could launch you into major faction politics, for better or worse! Thank you for understanding, and for helping us build a living, breathing world! ✦ [/color][/center] [hider=The Fae Court of Halcyon] [color=gray] [center][h2][color=#7d5cb3]The Hidden Crown of Halcyon[/color][/h2][/center] Long before vampires ruled neon towers and lycans clawed through alleyways, it was the Fae who shaped Halcyon’s bones — weaving the Glamour, the city’s veil of secrets, with threads of forgotten magic. They remain its silent architects. The Fae Court is ancient, elusive, and without a singular monarch. No king or queen sits on a throne here. Instead, power is dispersed among the [b]Thorned Council[/b] — a circle of cunning Fae elders who rule by consensus, manipulation, and whispered threats. Their governance is not democratic. It is survival of the clever, the patient, the cruel. To exist within the Court is to exist within a game that never ends — where every word is a blade, every promise a binding chain, and every smile an ambush waiting to happen. [center][h2][color=#812442]Court Structure[/color][/h2][/center] [color=#7d5cb3][b]✦ The Thorned Council:[/b][/color] A gathering of ancient Fae lords and ladies, each ruling domains of memory, sorrow, fortune, pleasure, and nightmare. Council seats are earned through centuries of loyalty, wit, and treachery — and held through constant vigilance. [color=#7d5cb3][b]✦ Minor Houses:[/b][/color] Sub-factions that pledge themselves to particular Council members. Each House embodies a different aspect of Fae power — from shadow-weaving to oath-binding — and serves as the battalions of political influence. [color=#7d5cb3][b]✦ The Untethered:[/b][/color] Rogues and exiles, cast out from the Court’s protection. Dangerous, unstable, often mad. Some serve as mercenaries or saboteurs; others drift through Halcyon sowing chaos wherever they tread. [center][h2][color=#812442]Fae Court Customs[/color][/h2][/center] [color=#7d5cb3][b]✦ Oaths are Iron:[/b][/color] A spoken promise binds a Fae more tightly than chains. Breaking an oath fractures their soul — and is considered an unforgivable weakness. [color=#7d5cb3][b]✦ Gifts Entangle the Spirit:[/b][/color] To accept anything freely from a Fae is to bind yourself to them. A sip of wine, a strand of hair — nothing is without cost. [color=#7d5cb3][b]✦ Beauty is Influence:[/b][/color] In the Court, beauty is weaponized. Art, fashion, elegance, and physical allure are currencies traded as powerfully as blood and secrets. [color=#7d5cb3][b]✦ Hospitality is Sacred:[/b][/color] A guest under Fae hospitality is safe — until they leave. Once outside the protection of the offering, debts are reclaimed with brutal creativity. [center][h2][color=#812442]The Fae and the Other Powers[/color][/h2][/center] [color=#7d5cb3][b]✦ Vampires:[/b][/color] Useful predators, but dangerous ones. The Fae tolerate vampire dominion over Halcyon only because it keeps the humans in check — and even then, only while the vampires respect the ancient bans. Consumption of Fae blood is punishable by death. [color=#7d5cb3][b]✦ Lycans:[/b][/color] Crude, volatile beasts. The Fae view the lycans as necessary shock troops — useful pawns in the broader balance of power, but treated with disdain and tightly monitored. [color=#7d5cb3][b]✦ Wardens:[/b][/color] Broken soldiers clinging to dying humanity. The Fae mock them — but use them nonetheless. Wardens serve the balance, protecting the Glamour... until the day comes when their usefulness ends. [center][h2][color=#812442]The True Power of the Fae[/color][/h2][/center] Beneath the shimmering illusions and velvet politics, the Fae harbor no illusions of peace. They know Halcyon’s survival hinges on their Glamour — their magic. And they know that if the day ever comes when the vampires, lycans, or humans forget to fear them, the world itself may tear apart. The Court may not wear crowns. But they do not need them. They are the crown. They are the blade hidden in every smile, the whisper behind every broken oath. And if Halcyon ever forgets... The Fae will remind them why the oldest monsters are always the most dangerous. [/color] [/hider] [hider=Dane Verren] [color=gray][h1][CENTER][color=#7D5CB3]C[/color][color=#7D59AD]o[/color][color=#7D56A8]m[/color][color=#7D53A2]m[/color][color=#7D519D]a[/color][color=#7D4E98]n[/color][color=#7E4B92]d[/color][color=#7E498D]e[/color][color=#7E4687]r[/color] [color=#7E417D]D[/color][color=#7F3E77]a[/color][color=#7F3B72]n[/color][color=#7F396D]e[/color] [color=#7F3362]V[/color][color=#80315C]e[/color][color=#802E57]r[/color][color=#802B52]r[/color][color=#80294C]e[/color][color=#802647]n[/color][/CENTER][/h1] [table][row][/row][row][cell] [center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/8hewqRG.png[/img] [color=black][sup]__________________________________________________________[/sup][/color] [sub][h3][color=#7D5CB3]Basic Information[/color][/h3][/sub] [color=black][sup]__________________________________________________________[/sup][/color] [sub] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Name[/b][/color] | [i]Dane Verren[/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Age[/b][/color] | [i]52[/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Race[/b][/color] | [i]Human[/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Faction[/b][/color] | [i]Wardens[/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Role/Title[/b][/color] | [i]Commander[/i] [/sub] [/center] [/cell] [cell] [b][color=#7D5CB3]Personality [/color][/b] [sub][sup][color=black]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔[/color][/sup][/sub] [indent] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Core Traits[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Battle-worn strategist with a razor tongue [color=black]✦[/color] Gruff, sarcastic, and secretly nurturing [color=black]✦[/color] Brilliant tactician masked under rough manners [color=black]✦[/color] A stubborn old wolf who refuses to die quietly • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Likes[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Strong black coffee, stronger whiskey [color=black]✦[/color] The smell of gunpowder and cold iron [color=black]✦[/color] Arguing about tactics like it's a contact sport [color=black]✦[/color] Outlasting the bastards who think he's finished • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Dislikes[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Grandstanding politicians [color=black]✦[/color] Fresh-faced recruits who think they're invincible [color=black]✦[/color] Monsters hiding behind silk and smiles [color=black]✦[/color] Wasting words when a bullet is quicker • [color=#812442][b]Fears[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Failing the next generation the way his was failed [color=black]✦[/color] Becoming the kind of monster he hunts [color=black]✦[/color] Seeing good men die for fools’ dreams • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Habits[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Lights cigars and forgets them smoldering between his fingers [color=black]✦[/color] Keeps a battered silver lighter from his first fallen squad [color=black]✦[/color] Sighs like a disappointed father before every insane plan he agrees to • [color=#812442][b]Vices[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Whiskey at dawn when sleep won't come [color=black]✦[/color] Cigar smoke curling around old regrets [color=black]✦[/color] Running headfirst into lost causes because someone has to [b][color=#7D5CB3]Personality Overview:[/color][/b] [hider=Overview]Dane Verren is a stubborn ghost of a better time — grizzled, sharp-eyed, and carrying enough battle scars (inside and out) to make lesser men crumble. He wears cynicism like armor, but there's still a weathered heart beating underneath the tactical vests and barked orders. He'll call you an idiot to your face, insult your boots, and shove a gun into your hand with instructions that just might save your life. He reads people the way other men read maps: quick, merciless, and never wrong. He doesn’t waste pretty words — he gives you the ugly truth, rough as gravel, because he’s seen what happens when the truth is sugarcoated. Despite the gruffness, there’s an undeniable, reluctant warmth to him. He plays the grouch — but it’s the kind that patches you up first and chews you out later for being so stupid as to get hurt. Victory, to Dane, has never been about glory. It’s about making sure the kid next to him lives to see another sunrise, even if he doesn’t. Behind the battered exterior, under the worn boots and calloused hands, Dane Verren is still fighting for something he’ll never admit out loud: Hope. Even if he has to burn the world down to protect it.[/hider] [/indent] [b][color=#7D5CB3]Appearance Quickview[/color][/b] [indent] • [color=#812442][b]Physical Summary[/b][/color] | [i]6'2", broad-shouldered, weathered and powerful, carries invisible weight[/i] • [color=#812442][b]Defining Features[/b][/color] | [i]Jagged scar along jawline, heavy frown lines, battle-calloused hands[/i] • [color=#812442][b]Voice[/b][/color] | [i]Low, gravelly, cuts straight through lies — like a blade scraped over stone.[/i] [/indent] [b][color=#7D5CB3]About Commander Verren[/color][/b] [indent] [hider=About Dane]Commander Dane Verren is the iron backbone of the Wardens — a battle-hardened survivor who has seen the cost of Halcyon’s lies written in blood and ashes. A former soldier turned tactician, Verren carries the weight of a thousand failures he refuses to repeat. He leads with brutal honesty and a sharper mind than most of the vampires and fae he hunts. What Verren wants is simple on paper but near-impossible in practice: to protect humanity at any cost and end the city's monstrous reign — permanently. He knows the treaties are a farce, the peace temporary, and every day the Glamour weakens, the predators circle closer. He doesn't believe in fair fights, clean victories, or heroes anymore. Only survival. Only strategy. Only hard choices. And when the final reckoning comes, Dane Verren is determined to ensure that humanity — broken, battered, furious — will be the last thing Halcyon remembers.[/hider] [/indent] [/cell][/row][/table] [/color] [/hider] [hider=Magnus Corvane] [color=gray][h1][CENTER][color=#7D5CB3]M[/color][color=#7D58AC]a[/color][color=#7D55A5]g[/color][color=#7D529F]n[/color][color=#7D4E98]u[/color][color=#7E488B]s[/color] [color=#7E4484]C[/color][color=#7E417D]o[/color][color=#7F3E77]r[/color][color=#7F3B70]v[/color][color=#7F3769]a[/color][color=#7F3463]n[/color][color=#80315C]e[/color][/CENTER][/h1] [table][row][/row][row][cell] [center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/chPMMI3.png[/img] [color=black][sup]__________________________________________________________[/sup][/color] [sub][h3][color=#7D5CB3]Basic Information[/color][/h3][/sub] [color=black][sup]__________________________________________________________[/sup][/color] [sub] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Name[/b][/color] | [i]Magnus Corvane[/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Age[/b][/color] | [i]Appears 30 | True Age ~800[/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Race[/b][/color] | [i]Vampire (Elder Class)[/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Faction[/b][/color] | [i]Vampires[/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Role/Title[/b][/color] | [i]"The King of Halcyon" | Sovereign of the Blood Empire[/i] [/sub] [/center] [/cell] [cell] [b][color=#7D5CB3]Personality [/color][/b] [sub][sup][color=black]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔[/color][/sup][/sub] [indent] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Core Traits[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Charming sadist [color=black]✦[/color] Sinner disguised as a savior [color=black]✦[/color] Family-obsessed megalomaniac [color=black]✦[/color] Ruthless charmer with a serpent’s smile • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Likes[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Luxury — Jewels, riches, only the best of the best [color=black]✦[/color] Watching others kneel — in fear, in awe, or both[color=black]✦[/color] Bloody victory dressed in silk [color=black]✦[/color] Crafting heirs and monsters in his image [color=black]✦[/color] Watching his enemies drown themselves in ambition [color=black]✦[/color] High-grade, exquisite blood — especially from beautiful humans he personally selects • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Dislikes[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Defiance [color=black]✦[/color] The illusion of peace [color=black]✦[/color] Mediocrity in any form [color=black]✦[/color] Disloyalty • [color=#812442][b]Fears[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Another one of the family turning against him [color=black]✦[/color] The extinction of vampire supremacy [color=black]✦[/color] Dying nameless and forgotten beneath a crumbling throne • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Habits[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Smiles right before delivering a kill [color=black]✦[/color] Twirls his daughter's battered silver ring when calculating [color=black]✦[/color] Lowers his voice to a velvet purr when enraged [color=black]✦[/color] Lingers after a kill just to savor the fear in the air • [color=#812442][b]Vices[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Obsessive control masked as paternal devotion [color=black]✦[/color] Thrill of absolute dominion over prey [color=black]✦[/color] Playing savior... while sharpening the knife [color=black]✦[/color] Insatiable hunger for domination — blood, power, loyalty [color=black]✦[/color] Sadistic streak carefully veiled beneath courtly manners [/indent] [b][color=#7D5CB3]Personality Overview:[/color][/b] [hider=Overview]Magnus Corvane is what nightmares pray to become. He is the architect of Halcyon’s blood empire — a king built from ash, betrayal, and unyielding ambition. His charm is effortless, his smile devastating — the kind of man who invites you in with warmth only to gut you when you least expect it. He rules by weaving devotion into addiction, binding his "family" tighter with every whispered promise and every broken oath mended in blood. Yet beneath the tailored suits and cold charisma lies something monstrous: a predator who savors the act of killing — not merely as necessity, but as art. He believes death, like empire, must be beautiful. Perfect. Meaningful. He demands only the finest blood grace his table — the purest, the most alluring — curated collections of living art he calls his "roses." The others are discarded, broken, forgotten. To Magnus, cruelty is not a flaw. It is love expressed in the only language the weak understand. However, he does not rule Halcyon through terror alone — he rules because somewhere, buried beneath the terror, he makes monsters love him for it. In Magnus’s eyes, loyalty is not requested — it is owed. Those who kneel find protection and opulence. Those who betray him find only slow, spectacular ruin. Magnus believes the world will burn eventually. He just plans to be the last one left holding the crown when it does. [/hider] [b][color=#7D5CB3]Appearance Quickview[/color][/b] [indent] • [color=#812442][b]Physical Summary[/b][/color] | [i]6’1”, sleek and dangerous, every inch exudes power and precision[/i] • [color=#812442][b]Defining Features[/b][/color] | [i]Dark brown hair, predatory eyes, silver mafia rings flashing like fangs[/i] • [color=#812442][b]Voice[/b][/color] | [i]Velvet draped over a blade; slow, hypnotic, a voice you follow straight into ruin.[/i] [/indent] [b][color=#7D5CB3]About Magnus Corvane[/color][/b] [indent] [hider=About Magnus] Once a father, now a sovereign without mercy, Magnus built his empire the only way Halcyon understands — through blood spilled, vows shattered, and fear engraved into bone. Many know better than to defy him, and many more [i]fear[/i] him. However, he does carry mercy for those he sees as his allies. After all, Magnus believes in family above all else... But his version of family is a gilded cage: loyalty isn't given, it’s ripped from trembling throats and sealed with fangs and oaths that can never be undone. To him, mercy is weakness, freedom is a sickness, and domination is salvation. Magnus dreams of a Halcyon drenched in crimson, where vampires reign eternal, humans are refined into cattle, the Lycans are hunted like beasts, and the Fae are driven screaming back into the shadows. He speaks of unity with the devotion of a priest and enforces it with the precision of an executioner. Behind his custom-tailored suits and courtly charm lurks a predator who does not simply kill — he revels in the artistry of it. His demands are absolute: only the finest, most exquisite humans are worthy of being his blood sources — beauty and terror feeding his empire in equal measure. To those he gathers into his "family," Magnus offers untouchable power, wealth beyond dreams, and a place at his eternal banquet. But betrayal — even the smallest crack — is answered with ruthless, spectacular violence. Magnus is not merely a visionary corrupted by sorrow. He is a patriarch of monsters, a maker of dynasties who will drown Halcyon in blood and silk to build a kingdom where no vampire ever starves or bows again. His charm is a lie painted in gold; to trust him is to kneel at the altar of your own destruction. Years ago, from the ashes of a personal vendetta, Magnus found two orphaned twins — Angel and Noah — the children of a hunter who had slain one of his most beloved brothers. Rather than destroy them, he raised them like royalty: his "prince" and "princess," heirlooms to a dream only he could see. Noah, with a little fine-tuning, became Magnus’s perfect weapon — ruthless, devoted, eager for his place beside the throne. Angel, however, became his greatest disappointment, her defiance a wound he still tastes like iron in his mouth. Yet Magnus remains convinced:They are his legacy. And even if they resist, he will break them into the perfect heirs he needs — even if it means rebuilding his dynasty atop their shattered hearts. [/hider] [/indent] [/cell][/row][/table] [/color] [/hider] [hider=Dominic Blackmoor] [color=gray][h1][CENTER][color=#7D5CB3]D[/color][color=#7D58AC]o[/color][color=#7D55A5]m[/color][color=#7D529F]i[/color][color=#7D4E98]n[/color][color=#7E488B]i[/color][color=#7E4484]c[/color] [color=#7E417D]B[/color][color=#7F3E77]l[/color][color=#7F3B70]a[/color][color=#7F3769]c[/color][color=#7F3463]k[/color][color=#80315C]m[/color][color=#802E57]o[/color][color=#802B52]o[/color][color=#80294C]r[/color][/CENTER][/h1] [center][h1][color=812442][color=#812442]B[/color][color=#802749]e[/color][color=#802B51]i[/color][color=#802F58]n[/color][color=#7F3260]g[/color] [color=#7F3A6F]P[/color][color=#7F3E76]l[/color][color=#7E417E]a[/color][color=#7E4585]y[/color][color=#7E498D]e[/color][color=#7E4D94]d[/color] [color=#7D54A3]B[/color][color=#7D58AB]y[/color] [@Oso][/color][/h1][/center] [table][row][/row][row][cell] [center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/RUeksDd.jpeg[/img] [color=black][sup]__________________________________________________________[/sup][/color] [sub][h3][color=#7D5CB3]Basic Information[/color][/h3][/sub] [color=black][sup]__________________________________________________________[/sup][/color] [sub] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Name[/b][/color] | [i]Dominic Blackmoor[/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Age[/b][/color] | [i]Appears to be in 30s, real age ??? [/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Race[/b][/color] | [i]Lycan (Pureblood)[/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Faction[/b][/color] | [i]Lycans[/i] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Role/Title[/b][/color] | [i]Alpha of the Iron Fangs[/i] [/sub] [/center] [/cell] [cell] [b][color=#7D5CB3]Personality[/color][/b] [sub][sup][color=black]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔[/color][/sup][/sub] [indent] • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Core Traits[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Charismatic protector with a steel backbone [color=black]✦[/color] Fiercely loyal to the downtrodden [color=black]✦[/color] Carries a revolutionary's heart under a soldier’s scars [color=black]✦[/color] Intensely nurturing, but ferocious when crossed • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Likes[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Freedom — in all its brutal, messy glory [color=black]✦[/color] Strong whiskey shared with good men [color=black]✦[/color] The laughter of pack children [color=black]✦[/color] Hearing humans sing in the dive bars he protects • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Dislikes[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Vampires lording over the city like gods [color=black]✦[/color] Cowards who turn their backs on their own [color=black]✦[/color] Predators who prey on the weak • [color=#812442][b]Fears[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Losing himself to bloodlust [color=black]✦[/color] Failing to give his people the future they deserve [color=black]✦[/color] Becoming the tyrant he fights to overthrow • [color=#7D5CB3][b]Habits[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Softly hums old folk songs when stressed [color=black]✦[/color] Rests his hand instinctively on his belt knife when tense • [color=#812442][b]Vices[/b][/color] | [color=black]✦[/color] Occasional brutal retaliation masked as "justice" [color=black]✦[/color] Deep resentment for vampires — makes alliances hard [color=black]✦[/color] Will risk everything for the underdog, even when it’s foolish [/indent] [b][color=#7D5CB3]Personality Overview:[/color][/b] [hider=Overview] Dominic Blackmoor is the kind of man who walks into a room and makes it feel safer — or a hell of a lot more dangerous — depending which side you’re on. He’s the iron-hearted protector of the forgotten: the humans, the gutterborn Lycans, the misfits everyone else wrote off. To his pack, he’s not just Alpha — he’s a father, a brother, a storm in a leather jacket who would tear the world apart to protect them. He speaks softly, but when he does, every word carries the weight of a man who’s bled, lost, and bled again for the dream of freedom. Dominic’s heart still beats for hope — but it’s a fierce, ragged hope, sharpened by the years of seeing the monsters of Halcyon exploit the innocent. Unlike many Lycans, Dominic doesn’t see humans as weak. He sees them as brothers and sisters, pawns crushed between ancient powers. He rarely turns humans into Lycans — believing it a curse, not a gift. Instead, he shields them, even when the cost is high. But don’t mistake kindness for weakness. Betray his people, and Dominic will come down on you like a goddamn avalanche — swift, merciless, and final. He’s not above crime, smuggling, or even bloodshed when it serves the survival of his pack. He dreams of tearing down the vampire lords, burning the old Fae contracts, and carving out a free Halcyon where no one bows again. Dominic Blackmoor fights not because he loves war — but because he knows some dreams are worth the scars they leave behind. [/hider] [b][color=#7D5CB3]Appearance Quickview[/color][/b] [indent] • [color=#812442][b]Physical Summary[/b][/color] | [i]6’4”, broad as a wall, corded with muscle and weathered strength[/i] • [color=#812442][b]Defining Features[/b][/color] | [i]Tangled dark hair, storm-gold eyes, a beard that makes him look carved from stone, and an old scar across his collarbone[/i] • [color=#812442][b]Voice[/b][/color] | [i]Low, rough-edged, the kind of voice that can crack jokes or start revolutions.[/i] [/indent] [b][color=#7D5CB3]About Dominic Blackmoor[/color][/b] [indent] [hider=About Dominic] Born into the gutters of Halcyon, Dominic Blackmoor clawed his way from nothing — not because he wanted a crown, but because nobody else was coming to save them. He grew up watching his people starve while vampires lounged in marble towers. He saw good men and women slaughtered or chained by Wardens who claimed they were "protecting humanity." And he saw the Fae smile their secret smiles and walk away untouched while the streets burned. Dominic didn’t plan to become an Alpha. He became one the day the others started following him into battle. He founded the Iron Fangs — Lycans who refused to be slaves or fodder anymore. Under his leadership, the Iron Fangs have become a force in Halcyon: feared by their enemies, beloved by the people who have nothing left to believe in. Dominic dreams of a free Halcyon — but he knows dreams alone won’t tear down the ancient thrones. So he does what he must: smuggling, sabotage, quiet assassinations. Dirty hands build clean futures. But in the darkest corners of the city, when he’s alone, Dominic worries... How many more lines will he have to cross before he becomes the monster he swore to fight? [/hider] [/indent] [/cell][/row][/table] [/color] [/hider]