Crimson

A lonely town at the edge of a kingdom, a blacksmith who's luck has run out, a cloak as red as blood, and a ghost.

Every year, every winter, like the first cold breeze to end the season of harvest, that odd girl comes to haunt them. Donned with her red cloak against the canvas of white, she strolls silently through the town. They all fear her. They say she is cursed. They claim she is the harbinger of misfortune and the tragedy to befall them all. She is the Crimson Girl, the silent phantom as pale as the moon with striking eyes of cold steel.

Every villager has seen her at least once. The rest dread their turn. But one man has seen her not once, but twice. And she keeps coming back. At every encounter he realizes with astonishment: she is just as human as he. Not the ghost, nor the demon the village believed her to be.

Meeting her, however, brought a curse of its own. Slowly, the humble life in the lonely village is unravelled as her presence brings forth the buried truth of the kingdom they reside in, and reveals darker schemes that are put into play—truths that no one expected. The Crimson Girl is far more than a village ghost. She is far more than a simple, ghostly girl under a red hood.

So how does she play in the plot for the throne?