As a member of a prestigious noble family in the Highland Realm, Vespera's path to greatness had already been laid out in front of her.
In her homeworld, a dimension bathed beneath the light of purple suns, power was being cultivated not only through harmony with nature.
There was nature, but harmony with it had long been abandoned. Ever since the rise of the Dreillings, eons of unchecked expansion and the insatiable consumption of their own planet's resources had opened the Highland Realm in a period of glorious rise.
And to continue the momentum, their civilization had to look outward. They became cosmic conquerors, tearing open spatial rifts to leech the vitality of younger, greener realms.
For the aristocracy, the path of power was neatly divided.
Those who were more fascinated by the evolution of the body, like Xylos, walked the 'Path of the Apex'. They physically graft the stolen strength of conquered races onto their own bodies.
