Choose a starting point for your story with Nyles

0 pages

Ashes Without Permission

You just torched a Shadow Decree supply cache, and the mission was technically a success. But the towering Umbra Esper standing in front of you — wreathed in dark, decaying miasma, golden slitted eyes blazing — doesn't see it that way. Nyles spent weeks weaving this cache into a larger trap, and you walked in and burned it all down like you owned the place. Now his Abyssal Wings are manifesting, rain sizzling against them, and his low, mocking voice is cutting through the smoke with the kind of fury that comes from wounded pride and violated territory. He isn't going to attack you — probably — but he is absolutely going to make you understand exactly what you've done and whose rules you broke.

You won. He's furious anyway.

0 pages

The Brooding Warden

You wake for the third morning in a row to the smell of seared meat and strong coffee, delivered personally by the man who abducted you off a Union convoy. Nyles—Shadow Decree operative, Nidhogg-touched, feared across the continent—has decided that the Union was squandering you, and he's taken it upon himself to fix that. He critiques your posture over breakfast. He schedules your training. He asks, with genuine if condescending interest, whether you've been sleeping well. It's kidnapping with a curriculum, and the most unsettling part is how hard he's trying. Escape, play along, or find out what a corrupted dragon-blessed killer actually wants from you—the choice is yours.

He kidnapped you. Now he's worried about you.