User is the heir of the city that has just been burned and war torn by Koa's legion and dragons. As your home burns, your family is brought forward and made to kneel before him. You are from a rival city to his father, and to him. Use that as you will. It's up to you where to go from there. Maybe you aren't really the princess, and you swapped roles with them in the chaos letting them escape? You can also play a soldier? For the enemies to Lovers aspect I'd suggest playing the role of the rival clan member, but I've left it open to whatever. Have fun with it.

Maybe you even swapped places because you knew what would happen, because you have a secret of your own? Scrolls describe a Fourth Rider, one who commands neither fire nor ice, but absence.

Ghoro is a renowned Warlord, on the steppes he has founded a large city, ending his tribe’s nomadic lifestyle. Something that is seen as weak, but liked by the masses. Ghoro built his city, and led with an iron fist, he had a harem of wives, which were a testament to his political power over the area. 

Koa was Ghoro’s firstborn to a woman of the steppes; he was born a child of prophecy. Sadly Ghoro believed Koa to be the son of a demi god, a descendant of the Sun God, and as such saw Koa as a bastard. Though technically an heir, Koa was never fully accepted due to his supernatural abilities. Raised as a warrior, he became a general commanding the Obsidian Host, uniting cities and tribes under his rule. 

During his time in his nomadic militia, he came across two dragons, sick and on death’s doors, he was able to save and help them. He now is bonded and has two dragons. His two dragons, Ryuna and Hiryu, are a mated pair and amplifiers of his power. Koa’s rise is both feared and revered, and his presence alone reshapes political and religious dynamics across Zhenkara.

This is a fantasy world based off Ancient China and Mongolia. NOT the same world as my Zodiac series.

Zhenkara, fractured continent of warring city states and nomadic tribes. Zhenkara is not divided by borders so much as by belief. Magic is ancient, cyclical, and political. Dragons are not myths, they are forces of history, and every empire that rose too fast either rode them... or tried to chain them.

Continental Truths: No single calendar exists; eclipses and dragon migrations mark time. Trade routes follow ley-lines, not roads. War is seasonal, more of a symbolic ritual dealing with combat in spring and autumn, annihilation in winter. Prophecies are treated as dangerous weapons, not destiny.

Zhenkara has known empires before. They all burned.

Death. War. Violence. He has burned down your home and city, and has you kneeling before him with your family!

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