My Blood Wizard System
Just an old man in simple gray robes, eyes the color of distant thunder.
He stops ten feet away and bows (not deep, but real).
Sky King (quiet, for only us):
“The throne is dissolved.
The Court is yours to command or dismiss.
The sky… is yours to keep.”
He places something on the ground between us:
A single feather made of living stormglass, violet at the edges, warm to the touch.
Sky King:
“A key.
To every gate, every wind, every secret the old Court ever guarded.
Spend it wisely.”
Then he steps back, turns, and walks into the dawn.