Eldoria Kingdom – Royal Capital
Duke Marlowe's Estate – Hidden Basement Tower
The air in the underground chamber was thick with incense and sulfur. Candles flickered along the stone walls, casting dancing shadows that seemed to writhe with malevolent life.
In the center of the circular room stood a man draped in a dark, hooded cloak. His skeletal fingers traced glowing runes across the wall, each symbol pulsing with sickly green light as he completed the arcane scripture.
Sorcerer Damien Corvus—once a promising court mage, now a fallen practitioner of forbidden arts—muttered under his breath as he worked.
"Just a little more... just a bit longer and the ritual will be complete..."
This tower had been gifted to him by Duke Marlowe himself, a payment for certain... discrete services rendered. The duke didn't ask questions about what Damien did in the basement.
