Nicolas in Immortalis Delivers a Daily Nicolas Speech on Being Misunderstood

Listen closely, you fleeting shadows who dare to judge from your fragile perches. Every dawn, as the sun bleeds across the horizon and you scurry back to your illusions of safety, I stand here to remind you of the truth you refuse to swallow. I am Nicolas, and I am misunderstood. Not because I lack clarity, but because your minds are too brittle to hold the weight of what I am.

You whisper of monsters in the dark, point fingers at the blood on my hands, and clutch your pearls as if piety could wash away the inevitable. But what do you know of eternity? You, who crumble after a handful of decades, who love in fits of temporary madness and call it passion. You label my appetites depraved, my touches cruel, yet it is I who sees the lie in your every embrace. Your romances are saccharine poisons, quick to sour; mine are the slow carve of steel into flesh, eternal and honest.

Misunderstood? Aye, profoundly. You think my immortality a curse, a endless parade of loss. Fools. It is liberation. I have watched empires rot from thrones of gold, lovers wither into dust while their sighs still echo in my veins. I take what I desire because to deny it is to deny the pulse of existence itself. Your laws chain you; my defiance sets me free. And when I draw the blade across a throat, it is not savagery, it is sacrament. A gift to the void that birthed us all.

You fear me, call me killer, sadist, beast unbound. But gaze deeper, if your cowardice permits. In every scream I orchestrate, there is music you will never hear. In every bond I forge through pain, there is devotion your fleeting hearts cannot fathom. I am the architect of raptures you deem hells, the poet of agonies you flee. Misunderstood, yes, because comprehension would shatter you.

So carry on with your judgements, your moral tapestries fraying at the edges. I shall continue my daily rite, speaking truths into the indifferent night. One day, perhaps, when your time ebbs and the veil thins, you will glimpse it. Until then, tremble prettily. It suits you.

Immortalis Book One August 2026