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  1. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    The wind that moved through Mevala’s high towers that morning carried a chill—not harsh, just honest. A reminder of the height, of the silence, of the way sky and stone can seem to blur together. Far above the balcony where Nepheli had stood, speaking her quiet truths to the dawn, a shadow...
  2. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    Hildrabrenna did not rise when Nepheli spoke her name. She did not bow her head, did not clutch her chest in theatrical surprise, did not so much as shift her weight in the high-backed, unadorned chair at the room’s edge. Cloaked in black, her presence blurred the way ink bled into old...
  3. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    The return to Mevala was cacophony and color—too much noise, too much joy, too much life for someone forged in silence and fire. Hildrabrenna rode in quiet through the maelstrom, robes catching the wind like ink spilled in slow motion, her gaze unfixed yet keen. She noted the petals. Counted the...
  4. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    Hildrabrenna stood still in the golden wash of dawn, watching Nepheli’s retreat with the weariness of someone who had stared too long at gods and found them wanting. The dramatics—the faux offense, the opera-arched posture, the muttered elegy for rejected camaraderie—none of it truly veiled the...
  5. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    Hildrabrenna did not flinch beneath the sudden arm slung over her shoulders—though her brows lifted, just so, in the aristocratic equivalent of “really?” But she allowed it. She watched Nepheli’s soldiers fan out like gleeful carrion birds, scavenging the chamber of its forgotten dignity. The...
  6. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    Hildrabrenna stood just beyond the threshold, silent as Nepheli’s laughter echoed through the hollow chamber. The sound danced off stone and shadow alike, filling the space with something that felt almost sacrilegious—joy, in a place meant to wound. Her eyes rested on the crystalline core...
  7. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    Hildrabrenna emerged like a shadow peeled back from the edge of a long night—composed, poised, but laced with the fine fractures only one who had seen her ghost-self could carry with grace. Her eyes adjusted to the soft pulse of the corridor’s light, but it was Nepheli’s presence—waiting...
  8. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    The chamber shifted. Not with sound. Not with tremor. But with intent. As Nepheli’s storm faded into the echo of final silence, the dungeon seemed to inhale once more—its pulse finding a new rhythm, like a second heartbeat beneath the first. Hildrabrenna stepped forward into the breach Nepheli...
  9. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    Hildrabrenna did not follow. Not yet. She stood just behind the threshold, where the dungeon’s breath turned colder, sharper—where Nepheli’s silhouette vanished into shadow like a memory slipping beneath the skin. Her eyes did not narrow, nor did her breath quicken. But her fingers, clad in...
  10. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    Hildrabrenna did not speak at first. Instead, she studied Nepheli in full—no longer through the lens of calculation, but with something closer to reverence. It wasn’t the kind reserved for kings or gods. No, it was rarer than that. It was the kind reserved for those few beings in eternity who...
  11. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    Hildrabrenna stilled. For the first time since they entered the dungeon, the silence that clung to her wasn’t a tool—but a truth. Her gaze, strange and pale, rested on Nepheli across the gloom. No illusions. No riddles. Only a flicker of something colder and older than time: calculation. The...
  12. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    A cold curl of satisfaction slithered behind Hildrabrenna’s smile as she followed Nepheli’s stride into the dark, her cloak whispering like a second shadow behind her. So the War Master understands. Not just discipline—but restraint. Rarer still, the wisdom to refuse a blade that does not wish...
  13. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    Hildrabrenna studied the corpse with the calm of one who had seen such horrors before, unbothered by the grotesque artistry of its demise. Her eyes traced the caved-in breastplate, the too-clean severing of the arm, the warped blade still clutched in stiffened fingers. Not merely a death, but a...
  14. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    Hildrabrenna followed, silent as the creeping shadows that curled against the dungeon walls. She did not need to be told to stay close—she had walked these paths before, in dungeons far older, in places where the air itself whispered of the dead and the damned. She let Nepheli lead for now, as...
  15. Hildrabrenna

    Expansion Bloodless Conquest: Grand Duchess Nepheli's Ascension over Giro and Guipui

    Hildrabrenna stood at the dungeon’s threshold, a phantom draped in shadow and the quiet hum of unseen power. The air was thick with the remnants of battle, the scent of blood and burnt iron lingering from Nepheli’s conquest of Giro. Yet, in the presence of the War Master, Hildrabrenna did not...
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