At the heart of the Valderian Empire—past the high inner walls forged from sun-forged marble and veined with glowing celestial ore—stood the Sanctified Grand Cathedral of Elyssira, the highest church in all of Aerithrall.
Its spires reached like divine spears into the heavens, their tips encrusted with radiant crystal that hummed with divine mana. The main cathedral was a monument to reverence, echoing with the solemn silence of faith and the low chants of age-old hymns. Yet today, that silence was fractured.
It was not the storm of wind or flame that shook the hallowed halls, but a storm of voices, wings, and parchment.