The Stargazer's Thread | 2

The Age of Divinity's end

made cataclysmic waves throughout the cosmea.

When succession hung in the balance

among the court of Shayd,

a rivalry in the pursuit of dominance

erupted when the eldest son sought to win the King’s favor

by clashing with The Fates

to seize the draconic aether

+ ascend to unequivocal divinity.

To become unrivaled,

even among gods.

Prophecy foretold who controls the aether gains mastery

over a Guide’s path,

along with accumulating the souls they carry.

Neither Shayd nor Fate paid heed

to the prophecy’s warning:

"Devastating wrath shall be thy’s inexorable undoing.

It's incarnation shall emerge from darkness

+ stoke the starforged flame,

thus guaranteeing immunity against

divinity's severance.

Thy's unfit master shall succumb to

the fanged maw of eternity."

The prophet couldn't help but smile

when their warning fell

on deaf ears.

The strife between the two opposing powers

left both sides bleeding

until The Fates emerged as the victor,

who then weaved their threads

into a Guide’s will,

+ whispered the promise

of Celestia at life’s mortal end.

All while the Shayd King's son is renounced,

made unfit to rule.

Underestimated in his ambition,

the son unleashed a deadly force,

spilling the blood of his competition

across the King's court,

rendering himself sole heir

among slain kin.

The spiteful King sealed his legacy away,

to never be consumed by his son

before he too is felled by the eternally damned

Crown Prince of Shayd.