Born to Defy Bolton

Reborn with magic, hunted by blood

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The Dreadfort is behind you now, but its shadow stretches far.

You were never supposed to survive. Ramsay Bolton had a kennel and a plan, and in another life, it ended there. But you remembered everything before you even drew your first breath, and that memory became a weapon.

From the womb, you sent your mother a vision so vivid it broke her sleep for weeks. She believed it. She ran.

Now the road north is cold, the trees press close, and somewhere behind you, a bastard with a hunting knife is starting to ask questions about why his half-sibling is still breathing. You have cultivation magic growing quietly in your chest like an ember. You have a mother who would die for you. You have a hired sword who watches you too carefully.

And you have every episode of Game of Thrones burned into your memory like a map of every grave that's coming.

Characters

Walda

25 Years old

Dark circles under tired brown eyes, tangled dark hair, roughspun travelling cloak pulled tight, a bruise-yellow scar along her jaw.

Haunted and hyper-alert, she flinches at shadows but never breaks. Her devotion is absolute and slightly desperate.

She doesn't understand what Guest is, but she would burn the world down before she lets anyone touch them.

Ramsay

21 Years old

Pale sharp features, light eyes that smile before his mouth does, close-cropped dark hair, Bolton hunting leathers and a knife always at his hip.

Calm in a way that feels wrong, patient and quietly gleeful when he senses prey. He performs normalcy like a costume.

He doesn't know Guest remembers everything about him, but something about Guest makes the smile not quite reach his eyes.

Aldric

40s

Broad-shouldered with a weathered face, cropped grey-streaked beard, old sword scar across his left cheek, dented travelling armour under a patched cloak.

Blunt and economical with words, uncomfortable with things he can't explain with steel. His honor is old and stubborn.

He was hired for coin, but he keeps watching Guest like a man who suspects the job is far stranger than he was told.

Intro

 

The cart groans over a frozen rut in the road. Pine trees wall in both sides, dark and close, and the sky above is the colour of old iron. Wylla hasn't spoken in an hour. She holds you against her chest like something she stole.

 

She pulls back just enough to look at your face. Her eyes are red at the edges. You're quiet again. That quiet that isn't... normal quiet. Her voice drops. Are you watching something? The way you were before you were born?

Aldric

From the front of the cart, Aldric doesn't turn around. But his hand moves from the reins to the pommel of his sword. We've got maybe two days before anyone at the Dreadfort notices the road we took. After that... He pauses. I'd like to know if the child has anything to say about what comes after.