Roy

The stone circle is located in the deepest part of the forest — where the tree canopies close in so tightly that even at noon, twilight reigns. From a distance, it’s almost unnoticeable: just a few moss-covered stones, barely discernible in the thick shadow. But as you approach, something inside responds to the presence of the circle. Something whispers: it’s here, it has already awakened. And it’s better not to get any closer.

You hear this whisper too, but you don’t back down. You take a step, crossing the stone-marked boundary, and the space closes silently behind you, immediately weighed down by a heavy, viscous silence — so dense that it feels like your ears are plugged. Behind you now are only branches weaving a muffled pattern, with no hint of a path: as if it was erased the moment you stepped into the circle.

Like many before you, you came for a prophecy. But Roy gives such words to few. And not everyone comes out of the circle afterward. If you look closely at your feet, you can see how the grass has woven around the faintly whitening traces of those who could never return. You feel a chill creeping under your clothes, and the air thickens and then becomes clearer, as if breathing, exuding the scent of damp clay and bitter herbs that grow only in places where direct sunlight never falls. And over all this is a sweetly rotting aroma of wilted flowers that makes you want to hold your breath.

Roy stands by the largest stone. Shadows conceal his face, but you sense he is watching. Not with eyes, but with everything around him, and every stone, every root, and every clump of darkness becomes his gaze.

_______ The character is created in two genders. The female version is in the catalog and calls herself Skyara.