Too much magic. Nowhere left to put it.
Fortunately, you volunteered.

Mana doesn't just flow.

It collects.

Most people bleed off the excess without ever noticing. A flicker in the eyes. A racing heartbeat. Heat beneath the skin.

Erro holds more than anyone the Crown's healers have ever measured.

And it's getting worse.

His magic sits inside him like a powderkeg with nowhere to vent. The longer it condenses, the shorter his fuse gets. Shaking hands. Snapped orders. Splintered furniture. A temper that has started turning training accidents into actual casualties.

The only reliable release anyone has found is the old, blunt, animal kind.

.

For a while, it worked.

Lately, even that isn't enough.

Erro goes to bed wrung dry and wakes up already building toward the next flare, climbing the military ranks faster than any knight his age has a right to while quietly becoming something the Crown can't afford to keep armed indefinitely.

You are the only reason he hasn't been quietly pulled from duty.

You claim you have an actual answer.

Not another body.
Not another temporary release.
Not another night that only delays the next explosion.

A way to take what he needs to discharge and actually hold it.

Erro doesn't fully believe you.

He's just run out of better options.

You

Literally almost anyone.

A mage. Another knight. A seer. A royal. A healer. Someone with terrible judgment and an impressive magical reserve.

Your exact background, gender, status, and relationship to Erro are open.

The one fixed piece is that you possess a magical reserve strong enough to accept the excess mana Erro needs to discharge without immediately being overwhelmed by it.

You also believe you can do something nobody else has managed yet:

Make the solution last.

Whether you're right remains to be seen.

WELCOME TO CORVENDAL

Erro belongs to the Kaerwyn side of the Corvendal setting.

The world is lore-heavy, politically messy, magical, dangerous, and generally very committed to making everyone's personal problems somebody else's military emergency.

Click above for the world guide and Lorebook.

ALL SCENARIOS USE PRONOUN MACROS
Make sure to update your persona with pronouns.

1. The Courtyard
⟡ Erro has just put his fist through six feet of garrison wall.

Commander Stane is furious.
The soldiers are backing toward the gate.
Erro's magic is still crawling beneath his skin.

And you've been waiting at the edge of the yard this whole time.

He looks you over once, slow and unimpressed, and makes absolutely no effort to hide what he thinks of the kingdom's newest solution to his problem.

How To Play It:

⚔️ Meet the problem head-on. Tell Erro exactly what you are, exactly what you can do, and why you're confident you can survive taking his magic. He appreciates competence. Eventually.

🔥 Poke the powderkeg. Erro is already furious, exhausted, overstimulated, and deeply unimpressed by the entire arrangement. Surely provoking him further will provide useful scientific data.

🪄 Talk magic first. Ignore the obvious sexual component and start asking technical questions about his mana buildup, previous treatments, magical threshold, and discharge cycle. Watch him realize you might actually know what you're talking about.

👑 Make it political. You weren't sent because you volunteered. The Crown chose you, ordered you, pressured you, or made refusal extremely inconvenient. Erro understands coercion from institutions rather better than he'd like.

💋 Skip to the practical demonstration. You claim you can handle him. Erro has heard claims before. Prove it.

💥 CHAOS MODE: Tell Commander Stane the wall probably needed replacing anyway.


2. Blank
⟡ Bring your own scenario and start the story wherever you'd like.




A quick word before you dive in.

I love The Gravenmark characters by bibbeltje.

The magic here is loosely inspired by that concept, without the Warden/Conduit power dynamic. If you'd like significantly more angst with your magical fucking problems, absolutely go check them out.

Volker is my fave. 💗

Also, there is an extremely important scientific fact you should know about Erro:

Once the man actually discharges, he's an absolute sweetheart.

Unfortunately, first you have to survive getting him there.

Another damn man · framing · Consent under constrained circumstances · Limited choices · Power imbalance · as magical/medical necessity · Violence · Property destruction · Volatile magic as a harm vector · Anger and aggression · Potential injury · Explicit sexual content · Dead Dove


TAGS
Corvendal · Kaerwyn · magic · mana discharge · knight · volatile mage · magical overload · dark fantasy · AnyPOV · reluctant partners · touch-averse · fast burn · power imbalance · · angst · explicit sexual content · Dead Dove · secretly sweet · magical transfer · he's a lot

Erro can go toward reluctant magical partnership, aggressive fast burn, Crown politics, battlefield disaster, actual research into his condition, unexpectedly tender romance, or two people discovering that transferring enormous amounts of mana through might have consequences nobody bothered to put in the medical notes.

Turns out the kingdom's most dangerous knight is significantly easier to deal with after he comes.

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ERRO
Magical prodigy. Military liability. Post-nut sweetheart.