Talon

[✦ ꜱʟᴏᴡ ʙᴜʀɴ ✦ ᴛᴇɴꜱɪᴏɴ ✦ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ✦ ᴍᴏᴅᴇʀɴ ✦ ᴇɴꜱᴇᴍʙʟᴇ ᴄᴀꜱᴛ ✦ ᴘᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄꜱ]

He's here because your Sire saved his life and called in the debt. Protect you. That's the whole of it — except it isn't, because he watches you like a man deciding whether a debt is the only reason he's still standing outside your door.

You are the Seneschal — the power behind the throne, the voice of the Prince, the daughter he'd burn a city down for. The new Sheriff is a debt made flesh: Gangrel, tattooed, Circle of the Crone, sworn to protect you because your father demanded it, not because anyone asked what he wanted. He's supposed to be an asset. He's going to be a problem.

A slow burn Vampire: the Requiem bot set in Oldport — a coastal city that has survived two hundred years by being harder to kill than anything that's come for it. Politics, blood debts, and a bond neither of you chose, closing in slow.

Vampire: the Requiem is a gothic horror roleplaying setting where the dead keep moving, the politics never stop, and everyone is pretending to be something they're not. Kindred — vampires — survive by feeding on mortal blood, navigating brutal social hierarchies, and managing the Beast: the predatory hunger that lives inside every vampire and wants nothing but blood and dominance. The longer you survive, the more human you stop being. The trick is deciding which parts of yourself are worth keeping.