"Even gods fear the silence that remembers nothing."
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🌒 [Scene: The Obsidian Moon – Outer Divine Realm]
Above the skies of the mortal world, orbiting like a forgotten scar, hangs the Obsidian Moon — a prison and altar, forged for one purpose:
To house the Eater of Stories.
Caelen stood before the massive obsidian gate at its core. His hands glowed with the ink of rewritten truths, and his voice echoed in forgotten tongues.
> "He remembers too much," Caelen said.
"Let the void feed."
He sliced his palm.
A drop of divine blood fell on the seal.
It hissed.
And the gate opened.
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🕳️ The Eater Awakens
Out from the gate came no sound.
Only absence.
And then a creature emerged — shifting constantly between forms: a screaming child, a burning book, a collapsing timeline. Its core was a spiraling mouth of infinite teeth, whispering names as it devoured them.
> "What do you seek, Summoner?" it asked in a thousand voices layered in reverse.
> "Erase Aedric Valtoris," Caelen said.
> "But leave the flame. Let it wander without its bearer."
The creature nodded.
> "I will consume his narrative."
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🔥 [Scene Shift: Ashborn Encampment – Midnight]
Aedric jolted awake.
The fire around him flickered backwards — as if unburning.
Lyara sat up too, her face pale.
> "Something's pulling…" she whispered, holding her head.
One by one, memories began to vanish from the minds of his followers.
Korin forgot who gave him his blades.
Mirael couldn't recall the battle at the Citadel.
Even Thorne looked at Aedric and asked, "Who… are you?"
Aedric's flame dimmed.
Even his Flame Core began to forget what it was burning for.
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🧠Aedric vs Erasure
The sky above cracked open.
From it descended the Eater, spiraling downward like a storm of rewritten prophecy.
> "You are a story that burns too bright," it whispered.
> "And now… I unwrite you."
Aedric roared and launched a flame-strike.
But the creature consumed it mid-air — not by fighting, but by forgetting it.
His attacks had no meaning.
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đź’Ş Thorne's Breakthrough
Suddenly, Thorne — the silent giant — dropped to his knees, clutching his chest.
He screamed for the first time in years.
> "My sister! I remember her now!"
> "The day this thing took her — it erased even her scream."
Aedric turned to him.
> "Then help me scream louder!"
Together, they forged a name.
Not a spell.
Not a weapon.
A name that had been lost.
Tharia — Thorne's sister.
Aedric carved it into the air with flame.
The Eater recoiled.
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🔥 A New Kind of Flame
Aedric reached inward — deeper than fire, beyond memory, into narrative essence.
He remembered why he fought:
Not for revenge.
Not for rebellion.
But to preserve stories.
> "You are not the Eater of Stories," Aedric growled.
"You are the Fear of Remembering."
He unleashed a new flame: Chronokindle — a fire that remembers lost time.
It seared across the battlefield, igniting the forgotten.
Each ember became a reclaimed memory.
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đź’Ą The Turning Point
The Eater screamed — a sound like pages tearing.
> "You cannot exist if no one remembers you!"
Aedric smiled.
> "Then let me show you what it means… to be unforgettable."
He stepped through the creature's spiral mouth — right into its core.
And burned from inside.
The entity collapsed.
Not in death…
But in remembrance.
Its form became static.
Then turned into a single book — bound in black ash.
Aedric picked it up.
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đź“• Title Gained
> âś… New Title: Narrative Warden
"You now carry the Book of the Unwritten. Within it are stories devoured by the Eater. Only you can restore them."
> âś… New Skill: Chronokindle
"Flames that re-light erased time. Can restore up to 30 seconds of erased events once per battle."
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🧠Epilogue Scene – Caelen Watches
He watched from his divine mirror.
Unblinking. Unbothered.
> "So he carries the book."
He closed his palm.
And opened another.
This one… had Aedric's future inside it.
> "Let's see how he handles what's next."
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