The world twisted.
Cregan fell—upward, sideways, through darkness that shimmered like ice under torchlight. He landed on stone, but it echoed like snow.
Before him stood a forest, burning and frozen. Shapes moved—some familiar. A younger version of himself, swordless. His father, silent. A girl with a direwolf's eyes.
[Simulation Path: Trial of Memory]
He stepped into the forest.
Each memory was a test. Regret, fear, loss. The night he first shifted into Ghostclaw's skin. The morning his mother died.
He emerged from the forest older. Not in body. In weight.
[Memory Fragment Gained: True Name of the Breach]
Chapter 20: The Pact Deepens
Ash pulled him free.
He collapsed, gasping, frost steaming from his cloak. Ghostclaw whined and licked his face.
"What did it show you?" she asked.
"Everything I never faced. And the name. The Breach's name is Veyros."
She went still. Even the dragon hissed.
"Then it is worse than we feared," Ash whispered. "Veyros is not a tear. It's a prison. And it remembers who locked it."
[Questline Updated: Wake the Forgotten]
Travel to the Deadgrove Monolith
Recover the key of chains
Bind the Breach again or break it fully
Cregan stood, sword steady in hand.
He had faced the cold, the fire, the past.
Now he would face the truth.
And either seal the ancient wound...
Or let the world bleed anew.