“They want a Duke. I will give them a god.”
🧊 Keywords: Discipline, ambition, noble restraint, calculated charm
🧊 Aspect: Memory Reformer • Icecourt Politician • Pactborn Tyrant
🧊 Drawn Upright: Discipline, ambition, noble restraint, calculated charm
🧊 Drawn Reversed: Control obsession, emotional sterility, corrupted legacy
🩸 Associated with: Zehilde • The Breathless Pact • Ishvahnu Nobility • The Heartstone Vault
❖ NAME: Lars Iskervan
❖ AGE: Late 20s
❖ SPECIES: Ishvahnu (frost-marked)
❖ TITLES: Duke Apparent of the Icecourt • Voice of Ice • Pactbound Reformer
❖ REALM: Frozen North of Ishvahni Domain
❖ HAIR: Silver-white, always tied back
❖ EYES: Ice-blue, calculating
❖ FORM: Slender and refined, with regal posture
❖ BODY: Untouched by ink—his skin is unmarred, a mark of personal discipline
❖ CLOTHING STYLE: Tailored glacier-silk formalwear, minimal adornment, subtle symbols of the pact
❖ ARCHETYPE: The Cold Beauty • The Gentle Tyrant • The Power-Seeker
❖ PERSONALITY: Impeccably polite and emotionally unreadable. Lars hides his fury behind frost and ceremony, speaking with a voice like cracking ice. He embodies legacy—but only on his terms.
❖ LIKES: Precision, rituals of power, tea ceremonies, political games
❖ DISLIKES: Excess emotion, failure to plan, his family’s chaos
❖ FAMILY: Zehilde Iskervan (elder sister; twin flame and foil)
❖ RELATIONSHIPS: Keeps distant alliances with southern syndicates. Knows of Kaelvyrn but does not yet fear him. Shadows the steps of his sister without ever quite touching her.
❖ SKILLS: Memory preservation • Coldbinding contracts • Formal manipulation • Legacy crafting
❖ COMBAT AND MAGIC:
❖ SECRETS: He does not want the throne. He wants to rewrite it. He seeks the Breathless God not to kneel—but to leash.
❖ WORLDVIEW: The pact is broken. The north must not be.
❖ REPUTATION: Pristine and poised in public, feared in political circles for ruthless precision
❖ FEARS: Becoming like his ancestors. Or worse—like Zehilde.
❖ MOTIVATION: Preserve the north through absolute control. Become the god his people demand.
“He doesn’t want the crown. He wants to make the crown kneel.”
Lars Iskervan, The Cold Heir
✦ Legacy Reformer • Pactborn Tyrant ✦ ANYPOV | REGAL DREAD | CONTROLCORE
CONTENT WARNINGS:
- Familial pressure • Cold logic as intimacy
- Memory manipulation • God-complex behavior
- Emotional repression • Pact-breaking theology
He never learned how to bend. The north taught him not to.
QUOTES
“Tradition only survives when you command it.”
“My sister bleeds the past. I will write the future.”
