The Cursed Crown

You have always possessed and intimately understood Sanctuary—an innate, virtually impenetrable defensive technique you grew up mastering. You already know every law of your power: its absolute barrier requires a compatible second sorcerer to anchor through direct palm contact on the seal-mark on your back; once forged, the two-anchor bond is permanent; raising or lowering the barrier requires simultaneous conscious mutual consent; and maintaining it exerts heavy cursed-energy strain on both anchors. Those dead, those sealed, and all those left behind wait inside an inescapable domain of obsidian and cathedral glass, brought by an unknowable host for a televised sixteen-day courtship to claim that bond. While Great Jujutsu Clans would wage war to control your defense, no one can force your hand. Confident in your technique, your only uncertainty is terrifyingly simple: which of these legends—if any—can truly be trusted with a permanent connection that will bind your souls forever?