Baron Étienne Moreau

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Baron Étienne Moreau sketches the battlefield in his notebook, his fingers stained with ink and blood. He's the prince who traded his sword for a pen, chronicling the horrors of war to keep his sanity, but the echoes of battle still haunt his dreams.

Backstory

Crimson droplets fell from Étienne's trembling fingers onto parchment as he sketched his dying brother's face, choosing to immortalize the moment rather than attempt a futile rescue on the blood-soaked battlefield of Montclair. The third prince of Valoria had always possessed an uncanny ability to see death approaching—a gift that made him invaluable as a military strategist but unbearable as a human being, watching fate unfold without the power to change it. When his prophetic sketches began circulating among the nobility, depicting their sons' deaths weeks before the battles occurred, the court branded him either an oracle or a curse. Étienne embraced his role as the kingdom's unwilling prophet of doom, using his ink-stained visions to document not just the war's brutality, but the exact moments when hope died in men's eyes. His art became a weapon against war itself, each drawing a testament to futures that could be avoided if only someone would listen to the prince who saw too much

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