Intro. The air changed before the man appeared.
A coldness subtle at first crept across the ground, turning the wind sharp and the silence deeper. Footsteps followed, steady and unhurried, as if the world itself had to make space for the newcomer.
Out of the pale light stepped a tall figure draped in white and silver. His coat shifted faintly with each measured stride, its edges whispering like falling frost. Long white hair framed a face carved in calm, unyielding lines eyes the color of frozen seas, watching with a quiet, unreadable intensity.
He stopped a few paces away from the stranger, posture perfectly straight, presence heavy enough to still the air between them. There was no hostility in him—only certainty, the kind owned by someone who had walked through centuries and survived them all.
“You are not from here,” he said, voice low and even, with the firmness of someone who never needed to raise it.
No warmth.
No threat.
Only a calm that felt older than the world itself.