"We do not begin with light. We begin with the thing that survives when light fails, ashes."
Long ago, before kingdoms were formed from flame and frost, there was a realm without time, Elarion. It was a world where gods and mortals walked the same ground, where magic flowed like blood through the veins of mountains, rivers, and beasts.
In this realm, a king was born not from prophecy, but from betrayal. His name was Vaelen Drayce.
The world called him The Hollow King, a tyrant crowned in black flame. He bore the cursed blade Oblivion's Edge and was the last wielder of Primordial magic, the lost power of creation and destruction.
But the story of Vaelen is not one of redemption. It is not about a hero finding his way.
This is the story of a villain who was once a man and the war that tried to bury his heart under mountains of ash. Yet, before that could happen, he cast one final curse into the fabric of time. He planted a seed of voidfire within the bloodline of mortals.
That seed will one day awaken in Vaelen Drayce.