The First Damnation - The Woman Holding Court

The First Damnation

Every empire has a moment where it chooses to rot.

This is it.

Three women stand at the bar of Ancestors Tavern as if nothing has happened — but everything has. Power has been claimed. Lines have been crossed. Something has been unleashed that will never be put back.

The Serpent Hostess still holds her glass.
The Ivory Empress sits on memory and muscle.
The Frog Princess fans herself, pretending innocence.

Between them stands an elephant, a creature that remembers everything. Beneath it, cards are scattered like prophecy. Around them, skulls watch.

No one here is surprised.

This is not friendship.
This is alignment.

Inside Ancestors Tavern, The First Damnation marks the moment when individual power becomes collective threat — when queens realize they are stronger together, and the world quietly begins to lose.

Hang it if you know exactly when things went from bad… to irreversible.