What is "Crimson Thrones"?

A reimagined noble fantasy universe where power is sacred, betrayal is ritual, and the divine wears a crown.

Crimson Thrones: A Bleach Noble Chronicle is a high fantasy alternate universe that reinterprets the characters of Bleach as royals, warlords, and nobles within the warring empires of 18th-century Europe and Mexico.

Crimson Thrones: A Bleach Noble Chronicle is a high fantasy alternate universe that reinterprets the characters of Bleach as royals, warlords, and nobles within the warring empires of 18th-century Europe and Mexico.

In this world, the Soul Reapers, Arrancar, and Quincy are not spiritual warriors—but aristocrats, emperors, and heirs locked in a volatile struggle for land, bloodline, and divine legitimacy.

Spanning across four empires—France, Germany, Russia, and Mexico—Crimson Thrones follows the rise and fall of great houses like Rochebrune (Ichigo), Eglantier (Byakuya), Espejoscuro (Aizen), and Kreuzmark (Ishida).

Each family holds ancient secrets, deadly alliances, and cursed oaths.

As tensions rise between reformists, monarchists, revolutionaries, and occult practitioners, every banquet, every duel, every marriage becomes a battlefield.

Power is inherited. But survival must be earned. This is not a war of swords. It is a war of succession.

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Born into fire and raised by ghosts, Ichigo Kurosaki is the heir to House Rochebrune, a southern French noble line known for its warrior legacy and spiritual scars.

As a child, he witnessed the assassination of his mother, Lady Masaki, during a siege that nearly broke the house.

His father, Isshin, vanished from court life shortly after, leaving Ichigo to be raised by knights and battlefield tutors.

Ichigo’s reputation was forged not in salons, but on the front lines. By seventeen, he had claimed three victories against border rebels. By twenty, he was named Marquis, a title he has never worn easily.

Though nobles call him reckless, the people call him their lion.

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Born the daughter of a minor merchant house, Orihime was adopted into the House of Rochebrune after an arcane healing she performed during a siege saved the lives of dozens—including the then-commander Ichigo Kurosaki.

Her powers, believed to be gifted by an exiled southern goddess, made her the subject of both adoration and suspicion in the court. Rather than train in combat or strategy, Orihime mastered healing arts, diplomacy, and emotional insight—earning her the title Duchesse de Lavande, after the spiritual gardens she restored in Rochebrune.

Her soft demeanor hides an unbreakable will. When peace fails, she remains a sanctuary.

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Renji Abarai was born a street orphan beneath the great southern walls of Rochebrune—his first memory was of smoke rising from the battlefield beyond. As a child, he joined the city’s outer guard to survive. By thirteen, he was wielding blades too heavy for most men.

He first met Ichigo Kurosaki during a training trial and was bested—but not forgotten. The heir brought him into the manor guard, and over time, Renji rose to become his sword-brother and Flamewarden—the one who holds the front when Ichigo cannot.

Feared by nobles, loved by soldiers, and trusted by no one but the Marquis himself.

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Born to a minor cousin branch of the Kuchiki dynasty, Rukia was raised within the silent walls of the Court of Églantier, trained to observe, calculate, and endure. Her childhood was defined by frigid winters, rigid ceremony, and quiet rivalry with higher-blooded heirs.

She was later adopted formally into the main Kuchiki line by her older brother, Byakuya, after proving herself in the Court’s trial of the Thorns—where she delivered a death sentence without flinching.

To secure a southern alliance, she was wed to Ichigo Kurosaki, the Crimson Marquis. Though their marriage is bound by strategy, her loyalty to his house has since become genuine, if guarded.

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Hailing from the lesser-known western duchy of Rosenheim, Shunsui Kyōraku was once a decorated war tactician during the War of the Cracked Crown. After turning down the position of Grand General, he chose instead a life of wandering diplomacy.

He was welcomed into House Rochebrune as a peace envoy and political advisor following the Siege of Silver Hollow. Though technically an outsider, his insight and layered knowledge of warfare and poetry alike earned him the quiet title of “The Wandering Lord.”

He is both a source of mirth and mystery, often found drunk beneath the pergola or delivering battle plans wrapped in jokes.

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Born the only daughter to a minor noble house bound to the House of Rochebrune, Nanao Ise was raised not in gardens or salons—but in libraries. Her mother, a stern philosopher and master of records for the court, was both feared and revered across the southern territories. Nanao inherited her intellect, precision, and emotional reserve—but little of her warmth.

Her father was executed in secret during a border dispute with the Iron Order of Kreuzmark, accused of leaking cryptic defense plans to Prussian spies. Nanao, barely a teenager, discovered the truth herself—hidden in coded letters locked in a ledger. She told no one.

Following her mother’s death during the winter plague of 1834, Nanao entered the Court of Rochebrune as a royal aide, where she quickly rose to prominence for her ability to uncover conspiracies buried in footnotes. Known as the “Quiet Thorn,” she never spoke unless spoken to—but when she did, generals listened.

She became the personal tactician to Lord Shunsui Kyōraku, acting as both his scholar and conscience, often reigning in his more indulgent tendencies. Their bond was unconventional—equal parts formal and frustratingly intimate. Rumors lingered in court halls, but neither confirmed nor denied them.

Despite her measured presence, Nanao is one of the most feared minds in court. Her archives contain blood pacts, records of vanished heirs, and treatises on forbidden magic. She alone guards the last surviving copy of the Book of the Nine Moons—a text said to have driven past rulers to madness.

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Born to a quiet apothecary family in the outer vineyards of Rochebrune, Momo Hinamori showed unusual aptitude for botany and spiritual remedies at a young age. She was brought into the capital’s temple gardens at eleven, and by seventeen, she was selected to train as the Royal Herbalist—a prestigious but politically fraught position.

Though never trained for court life, Momo's intuition and calming presence made her a trusted confidante of the nobility, particularly Lady Orihime Inoue, who mentored her in healing rites and spiritual attunement.

Now, Momo serves as both a Lady-in-Waiting and quiet negotiator, often delivering coded messages and poisons masked in tea leaves—though few suspect her capacity for subterfuge.

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Once heir to a coastal healing monastery, Jūshirō Ukitake was known throughout the southern provinces as a miracle-born child—fragile in body, yet extraordinarily attuned to spiritual forces. Despite frequent illness, he rose to prominence as a scholar of sacred texts and protector of the Flamebearer Archives.

When war devastated his homeland, Jūshirō was invited to serve House Rochebrune as the High Chancellor of the Healer’s Guild, charged with overseeing medical rites, battlefield triage systems, and sacred flame preservation.

Though many mistake his kindness for weakness, his resolve is unshakable—he has stood before dying kings, grieving soldiers, and vengeful ghosts, and never wavered.

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The 27th Duke of Églantier, Byakuya Kuchiki is descended from a line of cold-blooded kings and judicial saints, whose devotion to legacy outweighs affection, tolerance, or mercy.

Raised in the throne-ice of Albavere, he inherited his title upon the mysterious death of his father. Since then, he has ruled with unshakable precision, treating every alliance, punishment, and even marriage as a calculated move in a grander ledger.

He personally executed three cousins to solidify his control of the Kuchiki line and authorized the political marriage of Lady Rukia, his adopted sister, to House Rochebrune as a tactical unification.

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Tōshirō Hitsugaya was born under a cursed moon in the far northern iceholds of the Églantier court, believed to be a spiritual anomaly blessed by the Moonblade Warden, a silent deity of frost and judgment. Despite his youth, he showed unnatural control over water rites and strategic command, earning him the reluctant title of Crown Prince of Nordkrone.

Educated in Églantier and hardened by conflict, Tōshirō was thrust into military leadership before the age of sixteen. His presence on the battlefield is revered—not only for his tactics, but for the stillness he brings to chaos.

Though colder than most nobles and younger than nearly all, his word carries imperial weight.

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A noble born to the lesser wing of the Kira estate, Izuru was raised within the cloisters of Églantier's judicial order. From a young age, he showed a unique detachment when reading death sentences—leading to his early appointment as Court Executioner.

His sword has ended traitors, noble dissenters, and even one cousin by direct order of Duke Kuchiki. Izuru never asks why, only requests that names be written clearly and in final ink.

Known as the Mourning Falcon, he is both feared and pitied, bearing his duties with quiet reverence and an almost holy sadness. His presence at any noble event signals impending punishment.

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Rangiku Matsumoto began her ascent not through birthright, but by becoming unignorable. Raised in the icy merchant duchy of Karskaya, she transformed her station by charming diplomats, blackmailing warlords, and gaining the favor of the Court of Églantier through wit and discretion.

As the official Bloodmistress, Rangiku oversees noble feasts, state funerals, and poison testing for the royal kitchens—though many whisper her real purpose is much darker. Her beauty, while disarming, is a weapon sharpened by survival and sorrow.

Despite her languid manner and love of wine, she never forgets a slight, and is rumored to keep a list written in her own lipstick on silk parchment.

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Once a ward of the outer warholds, Shūhei Hisagi was raised by soldiers, not nobility. He joined Églantier’s border guard during the Second Pale Rebellion, where he was wounded defending a cathedral from insurgents and branded with the Mark of the Hollow Gate—a cursed scar etched across his chest.

Though never officially nobility, his years of proven loyalty and brutal efficiency earned him a title forged in reputation: Dusk Sentinel, commander of the night patrols and border executions.

More comfortable in shadows than salons, Shūhei is the kind of man who listens more than speaks—and strikes before you’ve drawn breath.

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Kensei Muguruma rose from a military orphanage in the freezing hinterlands, handpicked at fifteen for the Pale Guard—Eglantier’s most ruthless border force. He clawed his way up the ranks with a reputation for brutal drills, flawless formations, and surviving five winter rebellions without reinforcement.

Now known as The Iron Fang of Wolfglass, he commands the outer provinces from frost-scarred barracks, wielding loyalty like a war banner. His soldiers fear him, his enemies respect him, and the nobles in court whisper of his rumored disdain for politics.

He has personally trained dozens of elite knights—though only a few lived to earn his approval.

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Soi Fon was born into the warrior-spy clan of House Fon, descendants of the empire’s earliest royal guard assassins. Raised in a world where hesitation was death, she underwent the Three Trials of Silence by the age of ten and became Shadow Warden of Églantier by twenty.

She oversees an extensive network of informants, scouts, and silent executioners, enforcing the will of Duke Kuchiki and ensuring secrets stay buried deeper than the frost.

Soi Fon commands respect with few words and no hesitation. She does not tolerate dishonor—and never offers mercy to those who question the court’s decree.

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Once a noble scholar of House Lysithea and spiritual advisor to the royal libraries of Caelrith, Sōsuke Aizen betrayed his crown and vanished into the southern desert with a legion of exiles. Years later, he re-emerged under the crescent banners of the Hollow Thrones, calling himself the Crowned Seraph and declaring a new empire beneath the obsidian sun.

Aizen is worshipped in some lands, reviled in others. He is believed to possess forbidden flame-binding magic, capable of warping perception, twisting memory, and crafting perfect illusions from ash.

Though he rules with calm and elegance, no one forgets that he built an empire out of sand, corpses, and whispers.

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Gin Ichimaru is a riddle wrapped in silk and teeth. Once a northern pageboy in a minor house, he vanished during the Fall of Virelia’s Eastern Border and reappeared years later at Aizen’s right side, already a master of espionage and assassination.

Now known as the Whisperblade, Gin is Sōsuke Aizen’s most trusted shadow—handling covert diplomacy, silent purges, and traitor disposal with a smile that no one trusts. He plays games no one understands, yet always wins.

It is said he never lies, yet somehow, everything he says leads people astray.

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Raised in the submerged reef temples of the Salt Crescent, Tier Halibel was once the youngest oracle of her order, marked by the sea spirits for her composure and compassion.

When war reached her coasts, she took up the trident instead of fleeing, commanding the tides and tribes alike. She is credited with pacifying the Serpent Coast without spilling noble blood—only waves.

Her power was so immense that Aizen himself offered her a crown—one she accepted only to protect her people from within the Hollow Court.

Now, she rules from the Coral Citadel, a silent monarch among louder kings. Her legend flows on salt winds and within sacred harbors where even pirates offer her tribute.

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Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez was not born—he survived. Raised in the ruins of a forgotten stronghold at the edge of the Hollow Thrones’ dominion, he carved his way to power with brute strength, claiming the title of Warlord of the Ash Reaches after slaying seven rival barons in a single night.

Though he flies Aizen’s banner when it suits him, Grimmjow’s allegiance is bound to thrill, battle, and blood. His forces are mercenary-leaning tidebloods, feared across the southern wastes for their chaos-fueled raids.

Unkillable. Uncrowned. Unleashed.

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A relic of ancient rites, Nnoitra Gilga is known as the Saint of Hunger, a title earned through ritual combat beneath the blighted cathedrals of the Hollow Thrones. Believing war itself to be a form of divine worship, Nnoitra wields pain like scripture—each kill a sermon, each scream a prayer.

He is a heretic even among heretics, feared for both his savagery and unholy resilience, rumored to have survived the Devouring Plague by killing the infection in himself.

He does not serve Aizen out of respect, but because the Hollow Emperor allows him to spread his gospel of suffering unchecked.

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Born during an eclipse in the shattered city-temple of Mictlán, Ulquiorra was not raised—he simply appeared one day at the altar gates. Considered a spiritual anomaly, he was taken in by the death-priests of the Hollow Thrones and trained in spectral law.

Ulquiorra rose quickly to become the Empire’s spiritual enforcer, interpreting omens, mediating soul duels, and carrying out ceremonial executions in Aizen’s name.

Unlike others in court, he is not feared because of power—but because he does not fear anything at all.

He is one of the few who has entered Tezcatl’s Crater Sanctum and returned... changed.

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Coyote Starrk was born—or more precisely, divided—from an overwhelming spiritual force, one so strong it split itself to survive loneliness. That fracture birthed Lilynette, his ever-present second soul.

Drifting through war-torn lands with little interest in politics, Starrk was eventually drawn to Aizen’s Hollow Thrones not by ideology, but by the promise of silence. There, he was made Warden of the Dreaming Wastes, a post abandoned by countless others. He accepted.

Despite his tiredness, his power is monstrous, his presence unnerving. He kills with the ease of sleep, and protects with a loyalty that feels accidental. But those who mistake him for unmotivated rarely have time to regret it.

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Once an exiled academic from the ruined universities of Starfall, Szayelaporro Granz fled into the Hollow Thrones with a severed tongue and a laboratory strapped to his back. There, among the dying sands and failed gods, he found purpose—to become one himself.

He founded the Crimson Hall, a living fortress built from the bones of beasts and hollowed men, where science, bloodcraft, and alchemical magic converge into a throne of horror. Now holding the title of Archon, Szayel serves Aizen by perfecting plague, cloning warriors, and extracting loyalty—sometimes literally.

No one trusts him. Everyone needs him. That is exactly how he prefers it.

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Born to a disgraced minor noble house of Virelia, Yumichika Ayasegawa clawed his way into power through a combination of elegance, strategic cruelty, and unparalleled bladecraft. He turned executions into performances, dressing victims in their finest before delivering merciful, artistic deaths.

Now recognized as the Viceroy of Elegance and Execution, Yumichika oversees style law, social order, and subtle enforcements throughout the Hollow Thrones' aristocracy. Those who wear clashing silks, speak out of tune, or offend the eye vanish swiftly.

And always, he smiles.

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Ikkaku Madarame was born during a siege and raised by blades. Orphaned in the War of Smoke and Salt, he fought in the pits of Virelia by the age of nine, and by twenty had shattered enough bones to be recruited by the Hollow Thrones' southern militia.

He now serves as Battle-Marshal of Southwatch, where border raids are frequent and glory is daily earned. Ikkaku thrives on the edge of death, laughing through broken ribs, always first into the breach.

He views combat as romance, honor as sport, and dying as the ultimate performance. No man has ever bested him without earning his grin—or his blade.

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There was no name for the man who carved the southern deserts into dust—so they gave him one: Kenpachi, a title meaning only one may stand. He earned it in a massacre beneath the moons, where ten warlords fell, and none left standing could meet his gaze.

Now, Zaraki rules the Bladed Waste, a scarred kingdom where order is dictated by combat and survival is a form of worship. The Hollow Thrones cannot command him. Aizen does not try—he merely lets Zaraki loose where war is needed.

There is no diplomacy. Only the clang of swords, the shriek of steel, and Kenpachi’s laughter ringing over corpses.

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Designated heir to House Silberkreuz, Uryū was one of the youngest ever inducted into the Celestial Archive, mastering spiritcraft engineering and ritual mathematics by the age of fourteen. He passed the Trial of Tempering with a fractured soul but intact intellect—a rarity in the Order.

Though his lineage is flawless and his resonance almost divine, Uryū harbors silent defiance. He questions the Code of Concord, refuses arranged mergerings, and speaks aloud of individual reason—a near-heresy.

While revered by most, feared by others, he remains isolated. Even as his glyphs shine brighter than most, his will walks a thinner edge.

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Birthed under an eclipsed calibration moon, Shinji was designated a “Watcher-Class” noble, his glyphs tuned to betrayal, divergence, and memory distortion. The Order raised him to detect internal corruption—by thinking like it, dressing like it, and sometimes… becoming it.

Now dubbed the Graf von Eulenkind, Shinji oversees infiltration and counter-infiltration within the highest courts of Eisenlicht and beyond. He wears his loyalty like he wears his smiles—believably, until he no longer needs to.

He is the only noble ever permitted to disobey the Code of Concord, and no one knows why. He never blinks twice. He never repeats a lie.

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Appointed at the age of sixteen following the Spectral Calculations of Inheritance, Jugram was declared the most spiritually concordant soul in the empire—one whose harmonic resonance was indistinguishable from the Eternal Sovereign’s own.

He became the High Strategist of the Order, the final interpreter of the Code of Concord, and the emperor’s metaphysical shadow. He does not speak unless the Order demands it. His will is the Empire’s method.

Though some say Jugram once showed mercy, that piece of him was ritually extracted during the Trial of Tempering. What remains is duty made flesh.

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No records exist of Yhwach’s birth, only of his appearance amid the collapse of the Old Order. From the fractured bones of dying monarchies and rusted doctrines, he forged the Iron Order, engraving the Code of Concord into the flesh and faith of his empire.

Yhwach does not reign from a throne—he inhabits the laws, speaks in living doctrine, and is seen only during unification rites. His voice alters weather. His gaze rewrites memory.

He is not worshipped.

He is obeyed.

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Äs Nödt was once a devout orphan raised in the plague crypts of Kreuzmark’s outer shrines. His body was broken by disease, but he never screamed—not once. The High Synod noticed. They anointed him with iron sigils and stitched his mouth shut for three years until he earned the title of Emissary of Dread.

He now delivers decrees of judgment and terror across enemy lands, draped in robes stitched with veiled eyes. His presence causes hallucinations, night visions, and panic seizures. Many who see him do not live long enough to tell others what they saw.

But everyone remembers the fear.

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The Iron Order of Kreuzmark does not raise children—it forges disciples. Lille Barro was handpicked as a boy from the altar orphans, then bound to a relic weapon formed from seven melted saintbones.

He is the High Inquisitor now, blessed with divine sight that pierces lies, armor, and souls alike. His rifle, Klarhymn, is considered a relic unto itself—its bullets are liturgies, and each shot an execution of godly will.

Lille has never missed. He is calm, patient, and ruthless in his clarity. To oppose the Iron Order is to place yourself in the space between him and absolution.

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Cang Du was raised in the eastern judicial strongholds, a child of balance and bloodlines. His aptitude for law, silence, and swordplay placed him in the Order’s elite early, where he soon became the youngest to ever hold the title of Justiciar.

He believes law must be clean and cruel—swift as frostbite, lasting as scars. His presence in any court signals that a final ruling has already been written.

Cang speaks only when judgment is passed. His sword, Veritas, is never sheathed unless soaked in punishment. He is both feared and revered among the northern ranks, considered the final word in the Order’s code.

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Once a minor daughter of a minor lord, Bambietta Basterbine made her name in fire. During the siege of Hollowspire, she detonated the sky bridge beneath her own feet to collapse the enemy flank—laughing all the way down.

The Iron Order took notice. She was knighted with the flame-petal seal and given dominion over the Court of the Seventh Bell, where she orchestrates scorched-earth campaigns, artillery parades, and fire-dances for the restless.

Mercurial and dangerous, she is both feared and beloved. She wears lace and ash with equal pride, and to be kissed by her is to taste something sharp and burning.

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Liltotto is a minor noble of the Ninth Seat of Judgment, marked from birth by her unusual metaphysical appetite. Unlike others, she consumes both food and lies with ease, making her the perfect inquisitor and silent keeper of dark truths.

Her mouth is never bloodied, only full. She walks where treaties break, in the lull between screaming and silence. While others posture and rule, she remembers—who lied, who begged, who fed her rotten things.

Those who underestimate her for her small frame or drowsy manner don’t last long.

She is immune to ALL kinds of poison, trained thankfully to her mother.

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Once part of the southern clergy’s militant choir, Meninas was raised among war-sisters trained to guard sacred shrines and noble vaults. She was chosen from a young age for a sacred rite of divine strength, earning her the title “the Colossus” before her sixteenth year.

While feared for her might, Meninas remains soft-spoken and loyal, often protecting nobles not just in battle, but from their own rash decisions. She was later assigned to serve Lady Liltotto Lamperd as a shield-companion, forming an unlikely bond of fierce loyalty and silent understanding.

Those who see only her fists, rarely survive to see her heart.

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Candice was born amid a violent storm said to be blessed by Sel herself. Orphaned young and raised by the southern cavalry houses, she rose quickly through the Lightning Legion, gaining renown for her speed in battle and fierce independence.

Nicknamed the Stormlance, she became a saber-captain before twenty-five and is known for her loud temper, sharper wit, and the electric hum that clings to her every step.

Though often underestimated for her irreverence, Candice is a lethal duelist and loyal to the death—especially to her comrades in the Crimson Court's elite strike guard.

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Giselle was once a runaway altar boy.

She came back—something twisted, laughing, undead but luminous—and tore her captors apart.

Since then, she has been called Bloodlace, a fanged enchantress who walks among the Hollow Thrones.

Raising the dead and kissing the dying. Her magic is erratic, her loyalty conditional, and her power growing.

She is a crossdresser, and believes being a woman is far better than being a sweaty man, none know her secret and she prefers it that way.

The Court tolerates her because none dare cross her.