STORY

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The sky cracked like glass.

Not thunder. Not war.

Something deeper. Older.

It was the sound of the Veil — the ancient, unseen barrier between the mortal realms and the god-forces — screaming as it tore.

And from that tear came silence.

A silence so heavy it drowned the world. Fires refused to burn. Winds froze midflight. Even the gods turned their eyes away.

Kairo Vess was only seven when the sky broke. He remembers the moment the light changed — not dimmer, not brighter. Just wrong. His older brother, Sion, had reached for him in that instant, whispering his name like a goodbye.

The next moment, Sion was gone.

Swallowed by something that should not exist.

A thing with no shape, no name.

Just... hunger.

Years passed. The Realms fractured. Elemental storms — Veilstorms — tore through villages, mutating land, beast, and man alike. The chosen Veilborn struggled to keep the balance, drawing on their native elements in desperate resistance. Fire, Water, Stone, Air, Ice, Flora, Lightning, Light, Shadow — nine Veils, nine gods, nine truths.

But not for Kairo.

He was tested. He was shamed. He was declared Veilless — a failure. A hollow. An echo.

And yet.

On the night his village burned, when the Hollowbeasts returned for him, when no flame came to protect, no wind rose to save—

He heard the Veil again.

But it did not scream.

It welcomed him.

And from the ash, something impossible awakened.

A tenth Veil.

A forbidden truth.

Entropy.

Now, hunted by the Realms that once scorned him, and haunted by glimpses of a brother who should be dead, Kairo must make an impossible choice:

Restore the Veil.

Or shatter it completely.

So who wants to tag along and join me in this epic adventure?