"Where truth shatters, and echoes remain."
In the broken cradle of existence where reality breathes, bleeds, and bends power is not inherited.
It is awakened.
And once it stirs… it never stops echoing.
THE ECHO SYSTEM
Everything begins with the Echo the fragmented soulprint of reality. It is not mere energy, but resonance: a reflection of pain, purpose, and untapped potential. An Echo connects mortals to forgotten realms, lost truths, and metaphysical forces beyond comprehension.
But to access this power, one must first endure a soul-rending trial…
THE WHISPERED EVENT
When a soul is ready or broken enough it is drawn into a Whispered Event: a metaphysical crucible shaped by memory, fear, guilt, or longing. Time bends. Identity dissolves. Within this echo-realm, one must face a tailored truth.
Survive, and you awaken.
Fail, and something else awakens in your place.
ECHOES & ECHO CORES
Every survivor of a Whispered Event begins to resonate with their own Echo a unique power born of who they are, and what they've endured. But this Echo does not exist alone.
At its center lies the Echo Core.
What is an Echo Core?
An Echo Core is the crystallized form of a person's resonance a metaphysical heart that houses their evolving power. It grows and changes as they face trials, forge bonds, and master their Class.
It cannot be separated without destroying the self.
Pure Echo Cores are stable and grow with their wielder.
Corrupted Echo Cores are fractured, unstable, and often monstrous. These belong to those who failed their Whispered Event or worse, gave in willingly to the dark.
THE TWO PATHS
PATH OF ASCENSION
For those who awaken and climb toward transcendence.
Drifters – Unawakened. Mundane. Echo-blind.
N'Awakened – Survivors of their first Event. Their Echo stirs, volatile and undefined.
Legion – They choose their Class. Their Echo Core stabilizes.
Whisperborn – Mages of insight and arcane will.
Veilborn – Warriors of aura, instinct, and raw might.
Fathomwalkers – Stealth-driven assassins who warp perception.
Bounds – Tier V elites. Shape Echo Forces with a thought.
Ascended – Lawbound entities. Worship fuels them.
Transcended (Echocelestials) – Echoes of origin and void. Living paradoxes.
PATH OF RUIN
For those who fall — consumed by failure, obsession, or corruption.
Wretched – Survivors whose Echo shattered into madness.
Hollowed – They bleed corrupted Echo. Reality warps around them.
Scourgeborn (Voidhusks) – Monstrous beings driven by hunger.
Blighted (Ash Lords) – Tier V-level devastators.
Profaned – Anti-concepts. Heretical and parasitic.
Unshaped – Echo Nulls. Their existence collapses time, thought, and form.
CORRUPTED ECHO CORES & MONSTERS
When an Echo Core is shattered or tainted during a Whispered Event, it doesn't always die.
Sometimes, it twists.
These broken Cores begin to pulse with unstable resonance, leaking distortion into the world. Monsters born from or infused with corrupted Echo Cores are unpredictable and deadly.
Some are former humans. Others are Echo-forged abominations.
All are echoes gone wrong.
Examples of Echo-Born Horrors:
Yun'vorr – Bone-wreathed Hollowed that devours memory.
Kelthriac – Blighted made of glass and grief.
Oss-Virn – A Voidhusk that fractures light itself.
The Null – An Unshaped cluster of dead Echoes singing oblivion.
Tharnakh – A Profaned that consumes names and erases identity.
Vaessk – A once-divine warbeast, now Hollowed and mindless.
These monsters are often hunted for the corrupted Echo Cores they carry twisted artifacts that can be repurposed into unstable weapons, cursed relics, or forbidden research. But every use risks corrupting the wielder in turn.
CLASSES & EVOLUTION
All Classes evolve by shaping their Echo Core through battle, belief, and loss.
Whisperborn - Wielders of psychic, magical, and conceptual force.
Veilborn - Physical powerhouses driven by aura and will.
Fathomwalkers - Ghostlike killers. Blink through moments. End lives in silence.
Each Class reflects a different facet of the Echo, but all are bound by the same truth:
Growth comes through struggle.
XHA'VETH
Xha'veth is no god. It is the Echo memory of existence itself a structure, a system, a paradox.
It does not save.
It does not judge.
It only records what remains.
Its influence governs Echo flow and the laws of resonance.
ECHOBORN
You are either rising… or rotting.
Every step forward echoes into eternity.
Welcome to ECHOBORN.
Prepare to awaken… or be devoured.