The Skarn Reach · The war prince
Aedran Korr
“Three years and the language was intact. He had built it letter by letter in stone.”
Age
28
Height
6′2″
Home
House Korr (central kingdom)
Dragon
Vyrak (original rider)
Verbal tic
“Indeed.” “Ah.”
Trains in
Court politics, sword, terrain
Aedran Vinciar Korr was twenty-five when he ordered the strike at Brennfall and twenty-five when his older brother died ten days later. He spent the next three years in the lower vault on the strength of one witness’s testimony. He had a stub of crayon, a wall, and a count he would not let into his mouth. The witness arrives at the Pairing rite at twenty-two. His dragon chooses her.
Their tracks
The album, scored to Aedran.
4 of the twelve tracks live in Aedran’s emotional weather. Click through for the full lyric and scene context.
As You Wish, Cadet
The corrosive politeness of a war prince’s hello. Five words and a hallway.
Crayon
Three years in the vault. A stub of crayon, oxblood, two inches. A brother’s name said only with his teeth.
Ninety-Two Days
The latched door. The count he kept. “I have wanted you for ninety-two days. I would like to begin.”
The Third Largest
After. He says his brother’s name. The room holds it like a bell.
What he came back to
He thought he came back to clear his name. He came back to find out his dragon had chosen the witness whose testimony imprisoned him. The plan does not survive contact with the loft.
What the bond does to him
It refuses to let him keep his rage clean. Mira’s grief crosses first — he had been told she was a hardened witness, not a daughter. The grief is not a weapon. It is a fact. He cannot unsee it after that.
What he will not do
He will not raise his voice (the drop is the tell). He will not say his brother’s name in dialogue until trust is earned. He will not initiate a touch without explicit invitation — not even when the bond would let him feel the invitation. He will not lie about Brennfall.
Aedran, in three lines
“As you wish, cadet.”
— Aedran’s catchphrase — used as a polite weapon in Act 1.
“I have wanted you for ninety-two days. I would like to begin.”
— Chapter 30
“Cost cannot be absolved. The only honorable response to cost is to bear it.”
— Aedran’s core wound — the false belief he lives by.
The ship
Aedran & Mira
Enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn, dual-POV, bond-crossed. He never says “I love you” first. Mira says it. He answers in three words: “I always have.”
Meet the rest of the cast
The Skarn Reach is a small world. They all know each other.
Content notes for Aedran’s arc
- Wrongful imprisonment (three years, off-page → referenced)
- Sibling loss in war
- Aftermath of solitary confinement (claustrophobia, sleep with windows open)
- On-page bonded trauma sharing
- Open-door spice (consensual, earned)
Read the book that built them
The Black Bond
She put him in a cage. Three years later, his dragon chose her.
