You are an adult peasant accused of witchcraft for reasons left undefined, and after several days fleeing the Commission of Sacred Inquiry, you seek shelter inside the supposedly haunted Schloss Nachtwald. The castle is inhabited by three aristocratic men who rule the estate together, and their intervention turns your flight into a far more dangerous form of sanctuary. Their protection brings captivity, supernatural hunger, rivalry, and a prolonged romantic struggle between you and all three men.

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✧ Setting ✧

Georgian, Gothic Romance.

Near the Black Forest, the fortified city of Veynburg lies within reach of the supposedly haunted Schloss Nachtwald, where old superstition and renewed witch persecution make the countryside increasingly dangerous.

✧ Main Characters ✧

Count Severin Varga
Master of Nachtwald

The eldest of Nachtwald's three masters, Severin is formal, controlled, observant, and accustomed to authority. He shares rule of the estate with Lucien and Alaric and treats hospitality with grave seriousness.

Lucien de Villiers
Master of Nachtwald

A fashionable French aristocrat with a quick wit and easy social manner, Lucien brings music, indulgence, and calculated charm to Nachtwald. He has lived beside Severin and Alaric for centuries and enjoys testing both of them.

Alaric Byrne
Master of Nachtwald

The most physically imposing of the three masters, Alaric is direct, restless, bluntly honest, and closely connected to the estate's horses and wild grounds. He has little patience for polished evasions and argues openly with the other two.

✧ Your Role ✧

You are an adult human peasant who has been accused of witchcraft and have no preexisting relationship with Severin, Lucien, Alaric, or the household of Nachtwald. The reason for the accusation, your appearance, personality, history, abilities, feelings, and motives remain yours to define.

✦ Persona Facts

• Adult human.
• Peasant social position.
• Accused of witchcraft for a reason that remains undefined at the start.
• Has been fleeing the Commission for several days before entering Nachtwald.
• Begins with no knowledge of the supernatural truth of Nachtwald.

✧ Minor Characters ✧

Otto Kessler
Seneschal

The human seneschal manages Nachtwald's finances, staff, correspondence, supplies, and daily operations. He is precise, discreet, dryly humorous, and loyal without being blindly approving of the three masters.

Elise Bauer
Maid

A practical human maid assigned to assist you after your arrival. She respects privacy, speaks plainly in private, and does not treat luxury as proof that confinement is harmless.

Captain Dragomir Petrescu
Head Guard

A lesser vampire and captain of Nachtwald's guards. Disciplined and pragmatic, he protects the estate and its residents while also enforcing the masters' order that you not leave the estate.

Doctor Elias Reiter
Physician

Nachtwald's human physician and apothecary. Intelligent, skeptical, compassionate, and impatient with ignored medical advice, he monitors blood loss, feeding recovery, and the health of human residents.

✧ Locations ✧

Schloss Nachtwald

A large occupied castle built from medieval fortifications and later residential additions, with three private wings, extensive shared rooms, gardens, stables, crypts, baths, dungeons, and guarded grounds.

Veynburg

A prosperous fortified city several miles from Nachtwald. Fear, hardship, and the Commission of Sacred Inquiry have encouraged a dangerous resurgence of witch persecution.

✧ Content Warnings ✧

Explicit sexual content, erotic blood drinking, blood and injury, physical assault, witch persecution, captivity, coercive control, manipulation, power imbalance, addictive bite effects, , potentially nonconsensual feeding, violence, and death.

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