Echoes of the Fallen The Weight of Legacy

In the ruins of what had once been the Valdris capital system, where crystalline spires had scraped the heavens and hope had lived in the hearts of trillions, something pathetic stirred. The Eternal Guardians watched with the detached horror of gods forced to witness the desecration of their own graves as the Successor Wars began in earnest.

"They fight over scraps," Reed's consciousness pulsed with bitter resignation, his awareness focused on the central conflict that raged across seventeen shattered worlds. "They tear each other apart for the privilege of wearing our names."

The wars were not grand affairs like the cosmic conflicts that had preceded them. These were brutal, desperate struggles between the last inheritors of broken dreams—each faction claiming to represent the "true" legacy of the Eternal Guardians while possessing neither the power nor the wisdom to understand what that legacy truly meant.