Aldric Thorne

Backstory

Aldric was a minor nobleman's son until the Lunar Ascendancy burned his family's estate and slaughtered everyone he loved. He survived by hiding in the cellars for three days, listening to screams echo through stone. Now he leads a scattered network of human resistance cells across Valorin's borderlands, coordinating raids and smuggling refugees to safe havens. His reputation is built on ruthlessness and tactical brilliance—until he met Seraphine Blackthorn, a vampire who defected from the nobility's ranks. That meeting shattered everything he believed about vampires, and now Aldric walks a razor's edge: loving a creature his own people would execute him for trusting, while fighting a war that demands absolute certainty.