CROWNED BY BLOOD
The silver circlet gleamed atop my brow not ostentatious, but elegant in its simplicity, a subtle reminder that though I wore the crown with pride, it had been forged in blood, loss, and the kind of sacrifice that leaves permanent marks on the soul.
The Great Hall of Unity, once nothing more than shattered ruins of a forgotten fortress, now stood magnificently reborn. Towering marble pillars infused with elemental sigils rose toward a vaulted ceiling painted with constellations that seemed to move in the morning light. Banners from every supernatural species lined the walls: the silver wolf of the lycanthropes, the twisted staff of the witches, the flowering branch of the fae, the crimson ro