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Intro: The World Before Names
> In the beginning, there were no kings.
Only thrones—and the hunger to reach them.
Before the systems.
Before the Sovereigns.
Before the Ladder of Ascent was carved into the bones of the world…
There was only the Fall.
Reality cracked.
A million worlds shattered and bled into each other—becoming one patchwork ruin called Orvaxis. A realm stitched from broken timelines, orphaned continents, and species that should never have met.
To restore order, something awoke.
Not a god.
Something older.
It whispered into the bones of the fallen and offered the survivors a choice:
> "Climb. Kill. Claim."
Thus began the Sovereign Cycle.
The strong rose.
The weak adapted—or died.
And systems were born from the ashes of belief, tailored by forgotten laws and corrupted archives.
Each person branded with a Ladder, an unseen path unique to their fate.
Each dungeon a scar from some old world trying to return.
Each Sovereign… a nightmare that won.
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And Then Came the Eclipse.
One cycle ago, the sky fractured again.
A shard fell—a fragment of the unknowable—a memory that never existed.
It buried itself in a boy.
He did not die.
He changed.
Now, hunted by scholars of death and gods of memory, twisted by power he does not yet understand, Kaelen rises as something that should not exist:
> A Sovereign without a title.
A climber who warps the Ladder.
A name that eats history.
The world watches.
And the Archive begins to write again.
> Eclipseborne.
The one who climbs not for glory, but to rewrite the end.
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