They moved through the trees until the path opened into a shallow vale. There, faint light glimmered under the snow, traces of old stone buried by centuries. The pattern was unmistakable: a circular dais, engraved with crescent motifs.
"The Eclipsed Sanctuary. When was it abandoned, and why?"
Cecilia murmured, her voice piercing the silence of the once sacred place.
"Its popularity waned after the Age of Players, as people's faith drifted away from the gods. But the trigger for its abandonment was Aenoth's transformation. The details aren't clear, as there weren't survivors…"
'There weren't survivors.' Those words hurt Cecilia. Even if it wasn't her who had caused it, if the cause was really Aenoth, she felt responsible for it.
The Eclipsed Sanctuary was one of the structures built by the Dead Nerds Society, with the goal of strengthening the influence of the guild over the territory, as part of Drakestadt's first expansion wave.
