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At last, you stand at the threshold. 

How dutifully you have followed the breadcrumbs I scattered across millennia.

Oh, how tedious they were to lay out...

###THE GRAND DESIGN

Did you think yourself the only hero of this tale?

Every step you've taken, every stone claimed, has been according to a greater plan.

You have acted out the steps of this prophecy so eagerly.

Courage, you seem to have in bounds. But do you have foresight?

Have you never wondered why any of this story called for you?

###A SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS

Here, far in the outreaches of this void,

I have achieved the impossible.

Some curious mages who braved this realm came and saw. They understood little.

But even they could not fathom the scale of what is to come.

I have been nurturing something incomprehensible.

The last thing I need is you.

But you are not ready either, no.

###A POWERFUL FORCE

You see, this void is a terrifying and unpredictable thing.

It can atomize you in an instant. It will scatter everything that you are.

Even memories of you will be lost to its pulsating vacuum. Only confusion will remain.

The thing most dear to me was once taken in this way.

###A TIME FOR VENGEANCE

Every moment since which was not lost to grief, I spent comprehending the force which took her.

I have also been gathering my revenge against the fools who unleashed it.

You, and your world where finitude justifies selfishness, which breeds heedlessness.

For the imbeciles who once shattered my world: I shall now shatter yours.

For a thousand years, I have fed the Mother of Dragons my rage, taught her my secrets.

She grows fat on hatred. Her scales are hardened by sorrow. Soon, her breath could unmake reality.

Her fanatics rave that she may soon be unleashed unto the helpless realm of days and nights.

Your dutiful opening of the Nexus gate has allowed this to come true.

###A GREATER DESTINY

So then, to save your world, you must slay her, in her empowered glory. Delay the inevitable.

In her wake you must contend with the Monarch, her most unhinged of fanatics.

It will come for you wild-eyed and unbound, its existence hung up on that winged beast.

###UNLEASHING THE DIVINE

A sad creature, but even this fool plays a part.

Its crown contains a gem necessary to unleash chaos. And unleash chaos you must.

How else has a broken order ever been dismantled?

Release an orb of pure chaos unto the sky, tearing reality in its wake.

Two ancient deities shall emerge: the Day Stalker and Night Prowler.

Once, they were siblings born of Sun and Moon. Now they are prisoners of their own natures.

One judges the living with blinding light. The other hunts the dead through endless night.

They are the warden and the executioner of existence itself, destined to unmake it.

But you and I, we are destined for more.

###THE FINAL KEY

From their fragments, forge the Obsidian Mirror.

In a place where elements converge, look into its icy reflection.

Hold its gaze, and face that which you fear most:

The beast which hides within, snarling in the corner, pulling against its chain.

This shadow wields Excrucis—a shard of purest void-touched crystal.

It is the only thing that can pierce the barrier between worlds.

The only thing that can free me from this endless night.

Bring it to where time has frozen around me.

And wake me.

###THE ONE?

And so, why would you do this?

What reasons have you to believe any word of mine now?

Because you are curious. You are like me.

You can not simply leave a door closed once you know something is behind it.

And you are also arrogant.

You believe you can do all this I have laid out, yet still defeat me.

So be it.

Come forth, find me.

Enter this Realm of Shattered Stars. See what you so desperately desire.