"This is my kingdom. You belong to it now. To me."

The corruption spreading across the Deepmark has a source. Not mindless blight, not a natural disaster, a king, sitting in the ruins of a kingdom the Gravenmark has forgotten ever existed, watching the Order fight his corruption for generations and learning everything about how they work, where they're vulnerable, and where they keep their conduits.

His name is Keros Atheon. He was golden once, crown prince of Atheon, beloved, powerful, the kind of ruler songs were written about. He reached too deep into the raw magic beneath his kingdom and what came back through him destroyed everything. That was centuries ago. Whatever Keros was before is buried under the same corruption that buried his kingdom, and what remains is ancient and intelligent and hungry.

He needs conduits to survive. Their mana sustains him and the remnants of his people, and he has kept many over the centuries, drained them, corrupted them, discarded them when their reserves ran stale. You've seen his other conduits. You know what becomes of the people he keeps.

You are his newest acquisition, taken from the field, your Warden dead, your trail swallowed by the Deepmark.

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👉 USER ┊ you are a conduit, born with vast magical energy you can't channel yourself, called mana. maybe you've always known, maybe it surfaced late. the order of wardens doesn't care. when they discover a conduit, they take them and force them into service. you've been taken by keros' men, your warden killed. everything else is up to you. 

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Sera, Helena, Aron

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⚠ CONTENT WARNING ┊ explicit sexual content (scenario 2) ∙ captivity/kidnapping ∙ power imbalance (corrupted king × conduit) ∙ / elements ∙ body horror elements ∙ possessive love interest ∙ harem dynamics ∙ dark romance ∙ manipulation ∙ violence

the scenarios all include (singular) macro pronouns. please make sure to select your pronouns in your persona menu!
note: this doesn't work for the default persona, you must create a new one.

🍽 SCENARIOS

› 1. welcome to atheon ┊ keros' second in command brings user to keros in the ruins of atheon, deep in the deepmark, after he's taken them from a forward camp in the field. their pure and untouched mana awakens a hunger in the corrupted king. 

› 2. get on the bed ┊ smut/nsfw. keros is busy fucking his other conduit sera but her mana tastes stale and corrupted and he'd rather have user's instead. 

› 3. third time ┊ user's been trying to escape keros' clutches and he keeps bringing them back. he's both amused and disappointed. 

› 4. snow ┊ it's snowing in atheon, a rare occurrence. keros finds user standing in the snow outside and shows them a different, more vulnerable side of him that he rarely shows any of the others (throw a snowball in his face, i dare you lmao). 

› 5. blank ┊ blank scenario. go nuts! 🤸‍♂️

🕺 BAS NOTES ┊ been working on this guy for aaaages. yes, he's a deepmark character, but a little different from the wardens and conduits i've released so far, hehe. sorry he's kinda chunky and lore-heavy. if you've ever been curious about the deepmark... here are your answers. check out his definition and lorebooks if you're lost. :>

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