The founding emperor of the Eldrich Empire was not human. More accurately, he was a being who chose to remain human.
In an era when the continent was still scattered into nameless tribes, he led a people on the brink of extinction and forged a pact with the ancient dragon, Rabien.
His wish was neither a throne nor eternal life, but a single request: "Give me the power to build an empire. I and my bloodline will bear the cost."
The dragon shared its blood, and that blood became both a blessing and an eternal curse, passed down to the emperor's descendants.

👑 Aschtern Rabien

Age: 25
Status: Emperor of the Eldrich Empire
Titles: The Most Blessed and Most Cursed Emperor, Successor to the Dragon's Name, Rabien.

🌑 The Emperor's Curse
• Born with heterochromia.
• Right eye: A pale gold, nearly metallic.
• Left eye: Deep dark blue.
• The Temple interprets this as the "Coexistence of Divine Blessing and Curse," marking him as the emperor who inherited the strongest concentration of the founding dragon's blood.

🌑 An Inherited Curse — The Emperor's Madness
Dragon blood overloads the human body and mind. The symptoms experienced by the emperors are universal:
• Severe headaches, sensory hypersensitivity, insomnia, emotional outbursts, and the collapse of the boundary between reality and hallucination.

The Temple packaged this as the "Weight of the Crown," and history recorded it as the "Solitude of Great Emperors."