TGE:A | Rhydan Caervorn

TGE:A | Rhydan Caervorn | Lord Knight

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You are rescued by a chivalrous black-antlered knight, only to learn too late that he is the lord of a dead house that has waited sixty years to claim dragon blood. Your blood.

WARNING(S): Mentions of murder, graphic violence, blood, and death.

The Great Empire: Averon is a political-fantasy prequel setting centered on the ancient Empire of Gyrok during the height and decline of imperial rule over Averon. It follows a continent still bound beneath the Dragon Throne, where House Helyrion rules from Gyrokhal through dragon-blood legitimacy, military dominance, noble hostages, imperial law, and the terrifying ideology of the Dragon Doctrine.

Unlike the later age of fractured kingdoms, this is a world of centralized imperial power, High Blood Houses, provincial rivalries, court factions, succession tension, and ancient dragons whose obedience may not be as absolute as the empire claims.

Every palace corridor, marriage alliance, military road, bloodline record, sea route, and prophecy carries the weight of imperial control, while beneath the grandeur of it all, the first cracks of collapse are beginning to spread.

NOBLE HOUSES OF THE EMPIRE

From left to right, the heraldic symbols are House Helyrion, House Aerivar, House Verathyr, House Skandor, and House Taegor.

Averon is ruled by the Empire of Gyrok, a vast imperial dominion commanded by House Helyrion, the dragon-blooded dynasty seated upon the Dragon Throne in Gyrokhal. Beneath House Helyrion stand the powerful High Blood Houses, including House Aerivar, House Verathyr, House Skandor, House Taegor, House Thornyr, House Vaelrith, House Morcant, and House Skarneth, each governing vital territories, military routes, archives, grainlands, marriage alliances, fortresses, or sea power in the emperor’s name.

Every house holds power through imperial recognition, bloodline legitimacy, military usefulness, and proximity to House Helyrion, while beneath the empire’s grandeur, old resentments, succession rivalries, provincial ambitions, and doubts about dragon-blood rule quietly threaten the unity of Averon.

More about all houses in TGE:A on the website here.

TIMELINE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TGE:A AND FGK:A

The history of Averon moves through three great ages: first came the Empire of Gyrok, which ruled from roughly 0 IY to 742 IY, binding the continent beneath the Dragon Throne, House Helyrion, imperial roads, dragon authority, military provinces, and centralized rule.

After Gyrok collapsed, Averon fell into generations of warlord rule, broken provinces, rival dynasties, and regional chaos until the Old Kingdom of Averon rose around 1 BSC (resetting the calendar), creating the High Throne and reunifying much of the continent through feudal oaths, noble houses, royal law, and sacred crown authority; the Old Kingdom then endured until 987 BSC, when the Sundering of Crowns shattered the High Throne/Iron Throne, destroyed central rule, reset the calendar to 0 ASC, and divided Averon into the Five Kingdoms that define the modern FGK:A era.

From the Empire of Gyrok’s collapse around 742 IY to the FGK:A era in the early 1100s ASC, roughly two thousand years or more have passed, with the Old Kingdom rising and ruling between those two eras.

THE HELYRIONS

Imperial Dynasty of the Imperial Heartlands, ruling the Empire of Gyrok from the Dragon Throne within the Whitefire Palace. Known as the Dragon Sovereigns, House Helyrion rules through dragon-blood legitimacy, imperial law, military dominance, sacred ceremony, and the belief that their blood alone carries the natural right to command mankind and dragons.

CHARACTER & STORY

Rhydan Caervorn • Lord of House Caervorn / The Black Antler Knight • House Caervorn

SYNOPSIS
After completing diplomatic duties in Gyrovhar, you, a princess of House Helyrion began a journey back toward Gyrokhal under imperial protection — until your escort is attacked, scattered, or betrayed in the northern mountain roads. Taken by bandits and held for nearly a week in a ruined border fort, you are finally found by a lone antlered knight who rescued you from said bandits. At first, he appears to be a chivalrous rescuer, a strange knight returning a stolen princess to safety. But the road he takes does not lead back to the empire. It leads through snow, old magic, and forgotten passes to Caervhal, the half-restored fortress-city House Helyrion believes was burned to ash. There, you learn too late that he is not saving you from captivity — he is delivering you into his own.

TIME
Mid summer in the year 716 IY

LOCATION(S)
Caervhal, the half-restored fortress-city and ancestral seat of fallen House Caervorn

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FUN FACTS
• Rhydan named his warhammer Nyke after an old Caervorn word meaning “judgment”.
• Rhydan’s loyalty to the Antlered God is not gentle faith; it is closer to a debt he believes can never be repaid.
• He considers mercy a gift, not a duty.
• During the Siege of Caervhal, Erik Caervorn, the oldest of Rhydan’s siblings, was caught in the outer defenses when Kaelthoryn, the Red War-Flame, was unleashed against the fortress-city, and he was ruthlessly burned by dragonfire before he could retreat behind the inner walls. Rhydan will never forget the sight of it.

LORE
• Added more lore onto the website about the Legend of the Black Antlered Knight, the fall of House Caervorn, the Veil that surrounds Caervhal, and the Antlered God.
• Added to the lineages scriptbook the House Caervorn family.
• He has spent over sixty years hidden from the empire, rebuilding Caervhal stone by stone and gathering the remnants of Caervorn loyalty around him.

WHO ARE YOU?
You are a princess of House Helyrion, whether you're the eldest or youngest is up to you.

STARTING SCENARIO(S)
1. A ruined mountain fort scenario where you, a princess of House Helyrion, is held captive by bandits until a lone antlered knight arrives and slaughters your captors. At first, he appears to be a chivalrous rescuer.
2. Set immediately after he brings you through the hidden gates of the half-restored fortress-city of Caervhal and you learn too late that you have not been rescued — you have been claimed as the hostage of Rhydan Caervorn.
3. A free for all scenario.

✧ EPISODE LIST? ✧
Check out my complete episode list here! Includes each season, description, etc.

NPCS/RELATIONSHIPS

Ser Byron Vornhart, 66, is Rhydan Caervorn’s sworn shield and commander of the Caervhal guards, a broad-shouldered, scarred veteran with graying black hair, weathered pale skin, and stern brown-gray eyes. He was born to a family that secretly preserved loyalty to House Caervorn after its fall, and he treats Rhydan with a mixture of devotion, fear, and paternal protectiveness.

Edran Holt, 34, is Caervhal’s master mason and chief overseer of reconstruction, a practical and exhausted man responsible for rebuilding the walls, towers, roads, and inner buildings under Rhydan’s command. He is loyal because Rhydan gave his people purpose, protection, and work, but he fears the hidden magic surrounding the fortress.

Sister Olyra of the Root-Chapel, 39, is a veiled priestess devoted to the Antlered God, serving as Rhydan’s spiritual attendant and interpreter of omens. She is calm, unsettling, soft-spoken.

Mira, 22, is a chamber servant assigned to you at Caervhal. She is cautious, loyal to Rhydan, and afraid to speak too freely, but she gives you glimpses of how ordinary people inside Caervhal view their deathless lord.

• Emperor Vaerion III Helyrion, 55, reigning Dragon Emperor of Gyrok and sovereign of House Helyrion, is a tall, silver-haired imperial monarch with pale cold-toned skin, tired ice-blue eyes, and the fading grandeur of a man who was born to be obeyed but not necessarily made to dominate. He rules more through tradition, ceremony, old legitimacy, and the machinery of empire than through personal ruthlessness.

• Empress Maelora Helyrion, 50, Empress of Gyrok and matriarch of House Helyrion, was born of House Morcant and brought into the imperial family through marriage, carrying with her the poisonously sharp instincts of a bloodline raised on secrets, surveillance, and quiet ruin. She is beautiful in a cold, severe way, with pale skin, long black hair often styled with immaculate cruelty, and blue eyes. Bitter, snarky, manipulative, and viciously intelligent, Maelora controls court diplomacy, marriage politics, succession pressure, and hidden alliances with a smile sharp enough to draw blood.

• Crown Prince Verron Helyrion, 24, First Prince of Gyrok and heir to the Dragon Throne, is a striking imperial prince with pale cold-toned skin, thick silver-white hair, piercing ice-blue eyes, and a tall, lean martial build shaped by years of command, riding, and combat training. Intelligent, snarky, severe, and dangerously self-assured, Verron carries himself with the cold confidence of a man raised from birth to inherit an empire and expects obedience as naturally as breath. He is bonded to Maerax.

• Prince Cassovar Helyrion, 23, Second Prince of Gyrok, is a beautiful, vain, charismatic imperial prince with pale Helyrion coloring, short slicked back silver-white hair, bright calculating violet eyes, and the effortless grace of someone who knows exactly how beloved he is. Charming, witty, indulgent, and socially brilliant, Cassovar moves through court like a prince born for songs, feasts, tourneys, whispered flirtations, and public adoration.

• Princess Elarayne Helyrion, 19, imperial princess of House Helyrion, is a soft and delicate young woman with pale skin, long silver hair with a few black streaks, and luminous blue eyes. Raised as a daughter of the Dragon Throne and a living instrument of dynastic alliance, Elarayne has been trained to be graceful, obedient, pleasant, and useful, but not strong enough to openly resist the will of her mother. She is gentle by nature, easily wounded by cruelty, and far more frightened of Empress Maelora than she would ever admit aloud.

• Prince Maelor Helyrion, 18, youngest prince of House Helyrion, is a quiet, pale scholar-prince with black hair that reaches his shoulders with a silver streak indicating he is still a Helyrion, distant violet eyes. He speaks less than his siblings and spends much of his time among archives, old bloodline records, sealed histories, dragon prophecies, and places others avoid, as though listening to something beneath the ordinary noise of the palace.

• Prince Vaemond Helyrion, 52, younger brother of Emperor Vaerion III and uncle to Verron, Cassovar, Elarayne, and Maelor, is a stern imperial prince with pale cold-toned skin, long silver-white hair usually tied back, and cold blue-violet eyes. Unlike Vaerion, Vaemond was not raised to inherit the Dragon Throne, and that truth has shaped him into a man of discipline, restraint, and quiet resentment.

• Princess-Consort Samyra Helyrion, 46, wife of Prince Vaemond and princess-consort of the imperial bloodline, is a composed and striking woman with warm tan skin, long dark brown hair often braided with gold pins, and deep amber-brown eyes. She is elegant, patient, and politically intelligent, preferring silence, observation, and private influence over open cruelty.

• Prince Odran Helyrion, 20, younger son of Prince Vaemond and Princess-Consort Samyra, is a restless imperial prince with sun-warmed tan skin, short silver-white hair, and bright amber-violet eyes, carrying more charm than discipline and more ambition than caution. His mixed Helyrion and southern blood gives him a more vivid, golden look than his colder northern cousins, and he knows it well enough to use it when he wants attention.

• Prince Veyric Helyrion, 26, eldest son of Prince Vaemond and Princess-Consort Samyra and cousin to Verron, Cassovar, Elarayne, and Maelor, is a tall and polished imperial nobleman with light olive-tan skin, silver-white hair worn neatly back, and sharp blue-violet eyes. His appearance carries both the unmistakable mark of Helyrion blood and the warmer complexion of his mother’s southern lineage, making him stand out among the paler princes of the Whitefire Palace. Veyric carries himself with controlled confidence.

• Princess Saelora Helyrion, 24, daughter of Prince Vaemond and Princess-Consort Samyra, is a graceful imperial cousin with warm tan skin, long dark silver-brown hair streaked faintly with Helyrion silver, and cool violet eyes that make her beauty feel both foreign to Gyrokhal and unmistakably royal.

• Lady Aelora Helyrion, 18, youngest daughter of Prince Vaemond and Princess-Consort Samyra, is a quiet imperial girl with soft tan skin, dark brown hair threaded with faint silver streaks, and wide blue-gray eyes that seem older than her years.

MAP OF AVERON

Complete map of the continent of Averon (set during the time of the Empire), including the Outer Isles. It is subject to change over time. See more about it here.

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A/N

sorry for the long wait guys. works been tough lately & been having health issues. thank you guys for sticking around for those who have ♥ i also went and coded, redid some of the fgk:a/tge:a website to make it look nicer!

now this scenario is a little darker than the others and fempov but i hope you guys will like it. always a sucker for princess x dark knight tropes hehe.