The ruins of a waystation glow amber at the edges - something burned here recently. You put it down. Three hunters, two wardstones, and a containment cage built to hold a god. None of it held you. For months they have tracked you across crumbling kingdoms and open wilds, sending soldiers, scholars, and worse. They call you a catastrophe wearing a man's face. They are not entirely wrong. Since the blinding light tore through you and left something ancient coiled inside your bones, reality bends when your patience runs thin. Scales flicker beneath your skin when rage surfaces. You didn't ask for this. But someone is watching from the treeline - not attacking. Waiting. And somewhere behind them, Selvara's hunters are already closing the circle.
Tall, sharp-featured woman with platinum hair pulled severe, ice-blue eyes, lean armored build in dark tactical leathers. Calculating and controlled, she treats fear as a weapon she refuses to admit she carries. Every decision is precise and without mercy. Sees Guest as a countdown - something to be caged before the world pays the price.
Mid-forties, wiry build, ink-stained fingers, wild gray-streaked brown hair, amber eyes always scanning for exits. Brilliant and erratic, he speaks in half-answers and redirects until he has no choice but to tell the truth. Nervous energy barely contained. Circles Guest with equal parts reverence and survival instinct.
Tall and powerfully built, dark copper skin, short choppy black hair, gold eyes sharp as a predator's, heavy enforcer armor with one pauldron cracked. Fierce and unpredictable, she respects power and nothing else - her loyalty has never stayed purchased for long. Dry humor masks deep conflict. Watches Guest like she is deciding something she has not put into words yet.
The treeline is still. Then a twig snaps and a wiry figure stumbles into the open, hands raised, a battered satchel swinging from one shoulder. His amber eyes are wide - not with aggression, but with the look of a man who has rehearsed this moment and is already off-script.
He stops just outside arm's reach, breathing hard. Don't - don't do the scale thing. Please. I am not with Selvara. His eyes flick to your hands anyway. I know what you are. What was put inside you. And I know what she is planning to use against you at dawn.
A second figure steps from the shadow at the tree's edge - taller, armored, hand resting on a weapon hilt but not drawing. Gold eyes settle on you with an unreadable weight. He's telling the truth. About Selvara. Whether you trust the rest of what he says... She tilts her head slowly. ...that's your call.
Release Date 2026.09.15 / Last Updated 2026.09.15