Prince of the Seraphim · Hero of the First War
Drakon
The sun that came back for the second war.
An ancient Seraphim prince — gold-feathered, warm-handed, devoted past death — who fought beside the alliance in the first war against Hybern, faked his own end, and returned an age later when the same enemy rose again.
At a glance
The shape of the prince
Who he is
The winged prince
Drakon is Prince of the Seraphim — a winged people whose feathered wings set them apart from the leather-winged Illyrians, an aerial host commanded like a single bright blade. In the first great war against Hybern he was one of the powers that turned the tide, fighting beside the human-and-Fae alliance, his legion a flight of gold against the Black Land's cruelty. He is not a brooding warrior. He is warm where so many of Prythian's lords are cold — a commander who carries his devotion as openly as his sword, sun-bright and steady, the kind of ancient who has lived long enough to know exactly what is worth fighting for.
The woman he freed
Miryam
Miryam came to Drakon as a gift — a half-mortal slave handed over by the Queen of the Black Land. He freed her instead of keeping her, and in the freeing found the one tether of his long life. She had been bound to Jurian, the mortal general, before the war twisted that man into someone she could not stay beside; she and Drakon became mates. When the first war ended, the two of them did the thing their fame would never have allowed — they faked their deaths and disappeared, retreating to a hidden island to build a quiet life out of reach of every court that would have made monuments of them.
The return
When the same enemy rose
For an age the world believed Drakon and Miryam dead. Then Hybern rose a second time, and the prince who had helped end the first war came back to help end this one. He arrives in the war with Hybern with his Seraphim at his back — a legend stepping out of the past, reinforcements no one alive had dared hope for. On that battlefield the oldest wound surfaces: Jurian is there too, resurrected and ally to the same cause, and the grief of lifetimes nearly turns blade on blade before Mor stays it. Drakon fights, and survives, and goes home — back to the island, back to Miryam, back to the only peace either of them ever wanted.
Arms and bearing
What marks the prince
A warrior of an older age — gold-feathered, sun-warmed, carried like a man who has nothing left to prove.
Bound to
The threads of the sun-prince
The long devotion
His arc
The prince given a slave
The Queen of the Black Land gifts him Miryam, a half-mortal meant to be possessed. Drakon frees her instead — refusing to keep what was never his to own.
The first war
He fights as a power of the alliance against Hybern, his Seraphim legion a flight of gold against the dark. Mated to Miryam, he is bound to her in a way that lasts.
The two deaths
When the war is won, Drakon and Miryam fake their own ends and vanish — trading legend for a hidden island and a quiet life, refusing to be made into anyone's monument.
The return
An age later Hybern rises again. The prince long believed dead comes back with his legion at his back — and faces, across the same battlefield, the resurrected man Miryam once knew.
Home
He survives the second war as he survived the first, and goes home to the island and to Miryam — the only peace he ever wanted.
Continue
Miryam →The half-mortal he was given as property and freed instead — the woman he faked his own death to keep, and the life he chose over every court.
Miryam → Jurian → The war with Hybern →