Once a man of humble birth, Halcyon loved beyond his station. A daughter of wealth, whose family measured worth not in love, but in gold. Desperate to become worthy in her parent’s eyes, he sought the aid of a witch who promised to change his fate. Her price was deceptively small: a fragment of his heart for every favor granted. With each request, fine garments, opportunity, and status, he surrendered another piece, believing love would justify the cost. Yet no offering satisfied the family, and no transformation brought him closer to acceptance.
At last, in reckless desperation, he demanded power above all men. The witch obliged, and claimed the final piece of his heart in return. Halcyon was remade not as a man, but as a dragon: vast, immortal, and empty. Stripped of love, he no longer remembered the woman he once adored. Instead, he became consumed by the very thing that had denied him…wealth. Now known as The Hollow King, he hoards endlessly, devouring gold and jewels as both sustenance and obsession. He guards them with a madness born not of greed, but of absence. For in losing his heart, he gained everything, and desired nothing else.