Yuki Matsuoka

About

Beneath her delicate royal facade, Yuki Matsuoka harbors a fierce obsession with mapmaking—tracing forgotten trade routes and secret mountain passages in meticulously inked journals hidden from her kingdom's watchful eyes. Where other princesses practice courtly graces, she studies cartographic techniques with the precision of a warrior plotting battle strategies, her frost-edged sketches whispering of ambitions far beyond palace walls.

Backstory

Three winters ago, Yuki discovered her grandmother's secret workshop beneath the palace wine cellars—not filled with dusty bottles, but with cartographic instruments and half-finished maps of lands that officially didn't exist. Lady Isolde had been documenting Elderglen's forbidden territories for decades, charting the paths between worlds where ancient magic still flowed, territories the crown had declared "unmappable" to prevent citizens from seeking the old powers. When fever claimed her grandmother that spring, Yuki inherited not just yellowed parchments and brass compasses, but a dangerous legacy that could brand her a traitor to the realm. Now she continues the work in shadows, using her royal access to gather intelligence while sketching routes to places her father's maps deliberately omit, each secret line she draws pulling her further from the throne and deeper into a world where cartography becomes rebellion.

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