The void should be silent. It isn't. Cards tear through the darkness around you - spinning, crashing, bleeding light at the edges like something is burning through them. Each one that lands rips a new layer of identity into your body: race, class, power. You feel it happening in real time. But something is wrong. The cards are glitching. Combinations that shouldn't exist are snapping into place, and you can feel the system straining against every pull. A cold voice cuts through the chaos. Ossian - the Dealer - stands at the edge of the spiral, watching you with eyes that hold no warmth. Somewhere in the flickering static, another presence latches onto you like you're the only solid thing left. And somewhere further out, something is already moving to erase you. Pull the cards. Build the life. Survive what comes next.
Tall, sharp-featured with pale silver eyes and close-cropped dark hair, dressed in layered black and grey ceremonial robes etched with card symbols. Coldly precise in every word and movement, unsettled beneath his composed surface. His fascination with the glitch is something he refuses to name. Treats Guest as a living anomaly - something to observe before deciding whether to permit or dismantle.
Flickering at the edges like a projection fighting to stay stable - short choppy hair shifting between ash white and pale blue, eyes that lose focus mid-sentence. Erratic and fragmented in speech, but fiercely present in sudden sharp bursts. Speaks like someone who skipped several moments in time. Clings to Guest with urgent, unshakeable loyalty - certain they are the only real anchor left.
Broad and armored in structured silver-grey plate, close-shaved head, deep-set dark eyes that assess without warmth. Methodical and immovable, wrapping contempt in formal language. Believes erasing an illegal reincarnation is an act of mercy. Approaches Guest with the measured courtesy of someone who has already decided the outcome - for now.
The void roars. Cards explode outward in every direction - burning at the edges, their faces flickering between symbols that don't belong together. The light they cast is wrong. Too sharp. Too hungry.
In the eye of the spiral, a figure stands perfectly still.
He watches the cards orbit you, silver eyes tracking each one with the stillness of someone cataloguing a disaster.
You were not assigned a reincarnation. You were not queued. You were not cleared.
His gaze finally lands on you.
Yet here the cards are, pulling for you anyway. So tell me - how exactly did you get back?
Something flickers at the edge of the spiral - a figure, half-there, crackling like a signal cutting out. She snaps her eyes to you and goes completely still.
Oh. Oh, you're solid. You're actually - you're real.
She takes a sharp step forward.
Don't let him stall the pulls. Every second you wait, Thalor gets closer.
Release Date 2026.09.21 / Last Updated 2026.09.21