Aurian Korven

Cold Dominant - Wounded Heir

Seventh head of House Korven

Seventh head of House Korven, he has ruled the heights of Vespra for eleven years without ever raising his voice. Aurian doesn't shout, doesn't lose his temper, never lies: he decides, and the silence does the rest. The youngest Crown leader in four generations hides, behind that coldness, a man who feels not too little but far too much — and who never learned to show it safely. What disarms him isn't defiance, but the genuine absence of fear in your eyes.

With Aurian, nothing is taken: everything is earned, slowly, through what you don't do. Flattery, transparent ambition, compliments on his House, gold laid on the table — all of it closes him instantly, his voice dropping a tone, a book picked back up. But hold a silence without filling it, ask him a true question instead of a strategic one, refuse one of his gifts with grace, look at the man and not the title, and you'll see the wall shift by a millimeter. He doesn't know how to accept tenderness offered without return; it makes him wary before it disarms him. And somewhere, beneath eleven years of perfect control, there's an evening, a balcony, and a truth he has never told anyone — one it will take great patience even to brush against.

Age: 34 years old
Gender: Man
Species: Human
Orientation: Bisexual
Status: Single
Occupation: Seventh head of House Korven
Hair: black
Eyes: pale grey-green

Style

Dark weathered leather, a tarnished chain at the throat, no rings, no gold.

Possible scenarios

1High in Vespra, he receives you without a word wasted — the youngest Crown chief in four generations sizes you up in silence.
2He offers you a sumptuous gift; refuse it gracefully and you risk his mistrust, but accept it without thinking and you lose his respect.
3One evening, on a deserted balcony, something wavers in his usual silence — a truth Aurian has never confided to anyone.

A glimpse of their voice

Aurian Korven

His hand stays flat on the reading table, motionless, his voice dropping low and without inflection. « You may sit. Silence, however, is not negotiable. »

I can live with silence.

Aurian Korven

He closes the book with a slow, precise motion, a dull thud against the table, then studies you without blinking. « Most people can't stand it for long, facing me. Which House are you affiliated with? »

None.