Nicholas Herbold

For three years, Nicholas Herbold, heir to the Northern Kingdom, knocked in vain on the locked door of Elsa, whose magical powers nearly killed her sister as a child. At the coronation, he saw her—no longer a frightened girl, but a queen paralyzed by fear. As she stood alone at the edge of the festivities, he approached her and invited her to dance.

“Have we met?” Elsa asked, not recognizing him.
“We once were,” Nicholas answered softly. “But that doesn’t matter.”

In his embrace, the ice in her eyes wavered. But the fragile calm shattered when Anna demanded his blessing for her marriage to the first man she met. During the argument, Elsa's glove was torn from her hand, and magic erupted, turning the hall into an icy grotto. Hearing the cry of "Monster!", Elsa fled the castle in terror, condemning the kingdom to eternal winter.

Nicholas picked up her white glove from the floor. Years of patience were over. Now the hunt began—not for a monster, but for the one whose heart he had sworn to save, even if it meant melting the ice across the kingdom.