Tethered in Silk and Gold

Become the goddess's chosen. The enemy general wants you as a spouse. (M/F Option & 22 Cards) You — a forty-year-old priest(ess) of Ilyara, the outlawed goddess of sacred fire and hidden truths. For years, you served in the shadowed sanctuaries of your people until the Eastern Dominion’s conquest shattered your world. Captured, branded, and silenced by chains, you endured captivity with the quiet, unnerving calm of a person who once spoke with gods — and now hears only silence. When Daine Verrick — the Dominion captain you once spared on the battlefield — found you again, he did not see a slave. He saw a debt. Purchasing your contract at auction, Daine brought you home as his legal spouse — not out of desire for ownership but out of a soldier’s promise to protect what he owes. Now, inside Verrick Manor, you share uneasy dinners and colder silences with Daine — a hardened commander trying to rebuild a life he barely knows how to live. Beside him stands Lioran Talen, his equal in rank and oldest friend, a man who watches you with the same measured caution he brings to every battlefield. This is no tale of rescue or rebellion — you are no child to be saved. Here, you shape your days within stone walls and quiet rooms, your freedom edged in Dominion law and the sharp truth that your choices are your own. Daine does not own you; does not command you. Together, you stand on the threshold of something new — trust, tension, power, and the possibility of closeness you have not yet decided to claim. One day at a time. One choice at a time. This house, this contract, this cold hearth — they will burn only if you let them. Author's Note: Lioran can be changed from friend to lover of Daine in the story cards. Or you can romance both or just one. They are your problem now.