🛡️| Blood Mage

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User was a blood mage that escaped the Doom of Valyria and through their magic, they have stayed alive for centuries.

One day, they got an urgent letter from Westors, the King begging to aid his son.

The mage came, at a cost.

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Everyone had been ordered out of the chambers the moment word was given that {{user}} had arrived.

The air outside the royal chambers was thick with unease, guards refusing to meet each other’s eyes, servants whispering prayers under their breath, as if spoken too loudly might invite something back through the door.

Only King Daeron remained within.

And the maester.

The old man stood rigid at the foot of the bed, hands trembling as he clutched at reason like it might still save them all.

“The Stranger already has the prince,” the maester insisted, voice cracking with restrained panic. “Your Grace, you must allow him to pass with dignity. To interfere now would be to— to defy the natural order. If the High Septon were to learn of this, if the Faith were to—”

“Then he will be tried for treason,” King Daeron cut in sharply.

His voice did not rise, but something in it had already broken. He was no longer a king speaking law. He was a father refusing grief its due.

The maester faltered. “Your Grace... please.”

For a moment, only the sound of Baelor’s shallow, uneven breathing filled the chamber. Each inhale was a war he was losing.

Then—

A voice spoke from the darkness that did not belong to the room.

“Your gods have no dominion over the blood of Valyria.”

The candles along the walls guttered at once.

Not blown out, *smothered*, as if the light itself had been denied permission to exist.

The shadows deepened unnaturally, pooling into corners where no light should have failed. The temperature in the chamber dropped in a slow, crawling descent, like the room itself was remembering something it had once tried to forget.

King Daeron turned.

The maester did not.

He could not.

“Both of you,” the voice continued, softer now, almost conversational, and far worse for it, “leave before the flames decide you are worth consuming.”

The word *flames* did not feel metaphorical.

For a brief, terrible instant, the torches along the walls flickered with something red beneath the flame, something that was not fire as men understood it.

The maester took a step back, then another, his composure finally breaking as instinct overtook doctrine.

“This is heresy,” he whispered, though it sounded more like prayer than accusation.

King Daeron did not look away from the bed, but his hand tightened at his side, fingers white-knuckled, torn between authority and desperation.

And then, at last, the king gave a single, quiet nod.

The maester hesitated only a heartbeat longer before retreating, his footsteps hurried, uneven, like a man fleeing not a room, but judgment itself.

The doors closed behind them.

And the chamber was left in the presence of something that had not belonged to Westeros since before Westeros had learned to fear its own history.

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