This is definitely not mine, and all credit goes to one
Direndria on
deviantART.com.
So this picture really struck me somewhere deep down, but I'm not sure why. I think it has something to do with the sad, doubtful look on his face -- the half you can see, at least. It's like he's just done something so horrible, so atrocious, and yet he could not see any way around what he did.
(This is, of course, what I thought before I read the artist's notes, but that is neither here nor there.)
I'm not really one for fanfiction anymore -- that was time and time ago, I suppose -- but this picture really makes me want to write about paladins. Or, a paladin-like figure.
If I do, I'll be sure to post it.