Star & Shadow
In the hush before dawn, when the moon is veiled in nameless shadow,
shall be born the the Heir of the Silent Abyss.
His breath shall unthread the tapestry of fate,
and the prophets’ sight shall scatter like dust before him.
If sorrow claims his heart, the heavens shall rend,
and the Ten Thrones shall fall into storm and ruin.
Yet should the Star-Guide bind her light to his darkness,
a new morning shall rise beyond the reach of augurs.
Thus shall the world be remade—
by his devotion… or by his despair.
On the night of the Silent Eclipse, the world’s magic seizes. The sun erases, the moon appears where it should not be, and every element-born House feels its power stolen or warped. Lightning dies in Stormwake, fire goes black in Emberforged, time freezes in Chronosong, light flickers in Dawnweaver—only shadow surges stronger. Across Aetheris, everyone senses the same truth: something unnatural is being born.
At the center of the anomaly lies a small valley village, Lunwilde, and a single home where an exiled time-mage, Eryndor Valegrant, and his wife Selia struggle through a catastrophic childbirth. As the sky fractures and reality bends, their son comes into the world with silver eyes and an aura that makes shadows bow and time itself recoil. Every cry he gives reshapes magic, sending shockwaves through the great Houses and shattering the Oracle’s visions into a thousand unstable futures.
Chronosong’s secret Order arrives to “correct” the timeline, naming the infant a Void Successor—an entity that should not exist. Eryndor refuses to surrender his child and uses forbidden time arts to defy both his own bloodline and the devouring presence reaching for the newborn from beyond the sky.
When the Eclipse finally ends, magic returns changed, the Houses whisper of a harbinger, and an old tale resurfaces: a child of the abyss who will tear fate apart, hunted by all and protected by one who loves him more than destiny. In the quiet ruins of Lunwilde, Selia gives him the name that will shake the world: Noctis