In seeking to escape serving the Lord of Ravens many a hope flickered and died, for those who oppose him end up serving him after all.

As a way of defining your character better

Magic is a blessing and curse, life and death, birth and undoing, a goal and a way.

Pride. Strength. Skill.
These are the values of the Monroi, woven into their very being - for them, battle is not just self-preservation, but a need.

Alive with emotion -
Constantly in motion -
With inner voice, 'hind innocent face -
a cunning mind -
Metal fairies in the depths of space?

A fey kingdom fallen, with winter triumphant. A dream frozen, to be thawed by might and heroic deed.

The beast within became the beast without; ferocity and might blossoming in corpore upon the flesh.

Fiery doom in two handy barrels. Unsurpassed destructive power. Comes with a five shot warranty.

The greatest of chieftains, uniter of the hordes, harbringer of chaos, many names he held, yet what is the truth behind one of the greatet Orc leaders of all time?

Should you wish to pluck a rose, or to caress it, beware its thorns, its dangerous beauty.

An evil that nurtures evil, a dark mother that is cradle to shadow.

High above the lands of the living, where frost and howling of the wind reign, the morbid monument to a faith long dead calls the deceased on a last pilgrimage.

What is a forest’s firm support, yet walks ‘round on its own accord?
What’s possessed of a titan’s might, stands before you, yet out of sight?
What soundly spanks with gnarled root a behind that is not good?

The high society, the creme dela creme, waste often a great amount of money on luxuries and amusement. In a fantasy world, there is sure more to throw out heaps of money for than fancy clothes, shiny jewels and fast horses, mansions and wars...

Some sovereigns prefer a different sort of tax from their subjects - whether freely given, or taken by force.

It is the tortured and imperfect souls who most often cannot find a clear path to the afterlife. Weighted down by sins unforgiven, sins for whose forgiveness they never ask, sins they never regretted.
To be added to Remaking Undead when finished

A spell for a penny

Two young nobles, enmity between their families. Where have we seen this before?

A child at court, considering the world a private playground