The Trial That Names the Flame
"Before the gods feared him, he feared himself."
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🔥 [Scene: The Hollow Flame – A Realm Between Souls]
Riven had been stabilized.
His body no longer flickered.
His soul no longer cried out.
But his flame still lacked a name.
And without that name, he couldn't wield it.
To awaken its true power, father and son had to enter the Trial of Meaning — a sacred rite passed down by flameborn bloodlines and locked behind the soul's final gate.
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🧭 The Flame Gate
Aedric and Riven stood before an ancient brazier in the Hollow Flame.
It burned not with fire, but with questions.
Three doorways appeared — each leading to a part of themselves they tried to bury.
> "Once we enter," Aedric said, "we don't fight with flame."
> "Then how?" Riven asked.
> "With truth."
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🚪 Door One: Aedric's Trial – The Father Who Failed
Aedric stepped into a vision of the past.
He stood in the courtroom of gods once again — the moment of his sentencing.
But this time, the gods didn't speak.
He did.
> "You feared what I could become," Aedric said.
"So you killed what I was becoming."
The vision turned into a mirror — reflecting himself, chained, broken, filled with rage.
> "You are fire, nothing more," the mirror whispered.
He stared back.
> "No. I am the forge."
And with that, he shattered the mirror.
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🚪 Door Two: Riven's Trial – The Son Who Shouldn't Exist
Riven entered a playground of shadows.
Every child around him wore his face — but warped.
They mocked him.
"You're a mistake."
"A glitch in time."
"A name that never belonged."
He fell to his knees.
But one version of him — smaller, quieter — stepped forward.
> "We're all real," the small one said.
"Because we remember."
Riven hugged the younger self.
And flame bloomed around them.
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🚪 Door Three: The Flame's Trial – Purpose
Now united, father and son stepped through the third door — together.
Here, they saw not enemies…
…but every life they had burned.
Every soldier. Every civilian. Every soul forgotten in their war.
A voice boomed:
> "What gives you the right to burn?!"
Aedric stepped forward.
> "We don't burn to conquer."
Riven stood beside him.
> "We burn to protect what was almost erased."
The flames parted.
And from the center, a sword emerged — forged of flame and name.
Together, they touched it.
And the Hollow Flame whispered its answer.
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🗡 The Flame is Named
> ✅ New Flame Title: "Valtoris Ignis" – The Flame That Remembers
A rare bloodflame that cannot be copied, corrupted, or erased. Strength increases when defending memory, innocence, or legacy.
> ✅ Ultimate Skill Unlocked: Echoflame Resonance
Father and son combine flames into a burst that replays a chosen memory as a battlefield projection — demoralizing enemies, empowering allies.
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🛡 Titles Earned
Aedric: The Flamefather
Riven: The Named Spark
Both: The Valtoris Line Reforged
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👁 Final Scene – Pantheon Divided
The gods watched in silence.
Some turned away in fear.
Others began to remember names they had once erased.
But the God of War stood.
> "Enough watching. The boy is now a flame not just reborn… but named."
> "That makes him dangerous."
He pointed to the map of realms.
> "Unleash the Seven Burners. End them before their memory burns the heavens clean."
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