On a distant floating island, a tense atmosphere hung heavily in the air.
Several warriors stood in rigid formation as they confronted a lone man. Compared to the numbers gathered before him, he appeared almost insignificant, yet nobody present truly felt that way. The man stood calmly atop a massive beast soaring through the skies.
Its appearance was grotesque and unsettling, possessing an enormous maw where eyes should have existed. The creature glided through the air in eerie silence, carrying its master with an unsettling dignity.
William looked down upon the floating island from above with a cold and indifferent gaze.
His eyes swept across the landscape below until they settled on a mountain range at the center of the island. Resting atop those mountains was a huge mansion that stretched over the terrain like a fortress carved directly into the earth.
