The Alpha King’s Surrogate Secret
It hovered hundreds of feet overhead, a churning, dark ceiling of infinite weight held back by a swirling vortex of shadow-energy.
In the center of the chamber, seated upon a throne of jagged obsidian, sat the King of the Deep.
He did not appear as a monster. He sat there in the form of a man, though his skin possessed the texture of wet slate. His hair consisted of living, black sea-grass that drifted in the non-existent wind. He wore a crown of white bone, and his eyes remained two hollow pits of violet fire. In his lap sat the "seed" of the Feral King—a pulsing, dark diamond that bled shadows into the floor.
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