Ossian settled his massive form more comfortably, the bony spurs along his skull catching the faint blue light from the relic.
"Very well. Let me begin with what you must understand first: the Great Convergence was not a war we chose to fight. It was a catastrophe we brought upon ourselves."
He gestured with one skeletal claw, and the shadows seemed to dance in response.
"In the years before the Convergence, the world had reached heights of resonance unseen before or since. We had mastered the elements, bent space and time to our will, and even began to peer beyond the veil of our own reality. But knowledge... knowledge without wisdom is perhaps the most dangerous weapon of all."
His violet eyes dimmed slightly, as if looking into the distant past.
