Third Person's POV
Yet this feared power came with a merciless cost.
The awakening of their bloodline was said to be a torment so great that many perished in the attempt, with their bodies consumed by the very fire that should have made them strong.
The Enforcement Elders Solomon, however, had not only survived but had risen to stand among one of the most formidable of his kin.
Still, an event of such magnitude had struck him a few hundred years ago that he had severed ties with his clan and even with the Empire itself.
No one knew the exact cause of his exile, as it was spoken only in hushed whispers and was a mystery smothered beneath layers of silence.
And whatever truth lay behind it, it didn't matter to anyone as he had long since buried himself in the Sanctum and kept himself to its shadows, while neither involving himself in politics nor in wars, nor in the schemes of the outer world.
His presence was like a sword sheathed in darkness, dormant, but undeniably lethal.
