Shadowed Crown
In my previous life, I was born at the stroke of a cold, pitch-black midnight on New Year's Day, an omen the old town whispered about. They called me a Deathbringer's child, destined to guide the souls of the stillborn to rest.
From the age of six, I carried small coffins alone to the graveyard by the church, burying them in silence.
Each time, when I reached into the velvet shroud that wrapped the tiny casket, I would find a golden coin resting inside.
My mother sold those coins for money, buying my brother a grand mansion, while leaving me behind in the crumbling family house to keep doing the work.
No one expected the world of Haunts to descend. However, those coins turned out to be tokens of command, keys that bound the Haunts of the apocalypse to my will.
With them, I became the Empress of the End, feared by all, ruling with every resource at my command.