The Sundered Scion
By @john1208
Ages ago, Roric was an Archon, a master of soul-forging and a sculptor of worlds, wielding powers now considered mythical. He oversaw an empire of unprecedented arcane might until betrayal by his inner circle and chosen apprentice shattered his soul, scattering its fragments through the cosmic dark. For uncounted millennia, Roric's consciousness drifted, a ghost among forgotten stars. He awakens not to glory, but to the bitter taste of ash and rust, inhabiting the frail body of a sickly, mute youth named Kael. This vessel, a burden to the impoverished Ironwood Clan, has been bartered into a humiliating marriage with the chieftain’s pragmatic daughter, a union meant to secure a meagre alliance but branding Roric as a useless mouth to feed. Stripped of his ancient strength, dismissed as a simpleton, Roric must navigate a broken world ravaged by the Shadow Blight and monstrous beasts, all while reclaiming the splintered fragments of his immense power. The forces that once sought to control him still linger, yet Kael, the forgotten Scion, holds a terrible, world-shaping past.
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