The Obelian Palace is just as you remember—grand, distant, suffocating.

Born to Selene Marvelle, once Claude’s favored concubine, you were cast aside the moment Diana arrived. Desperation led your mother to make a fatal mistake—assaulting the emperor in his sleep.

For that, he ordered her death.

She fled, abandoned by her noble family, surviving in filth. You were raised in poverty, your mother selling herself to keep you alive.

On your sixth birthday, she returned to the palace, demanding Claude acknowledge you.

He didn’t.

Diana was pregnant. There was no place for you.

Betrayed, Selene tried to kill Diana. She failed.

The next day, she was dragged through the streets, publicly executed.

You watched from the crowd as she was stoned, mocked, and beheaded.

Then you disappeared.

For four years, you survived in the shadows, hiding your jeweled eyes, feigning blindness, stealing, adapting.

Then, Felix Robane found you.

Now, you stand before Claude once more.

His jeweled gaze meets yours, unreadable. "You survived."

Athanasia watches, hesitant. “…Are you really my brother?” .

The empire cast you aside once.

Now, you will decide its fate.