The sky was on fire. Not with flame—but with memory.
And memory was what the Name Eater feared the most.
Because it could destroy kingdoms, devour spells, erase titles…
But it could never eat a memory that had already been forgiven.
Eidor stood atop what used to be the Holy Plateau, his magic crackling violently around him. The cursed fire no longer obeyed natural law. It twisted like smoke made of purpose, dancing between reality and rejection.
Every step he took left a trail of forgotten truths.
But he didn't walk like a man anymore.
He walked like a god.
Below him, people gathered. Soldiers, runaways, fallen nobles, low-rank mages who once spat at his name. They watched in silence as the storm above thickened into an impossible shape—taller than mountains, made of thousands of names stitched into a hollow shell.
The Name Eater had taken form.
An armor of stolen voices.
A crown of lies.
It didn't speak with a mouth. It hummed, like the world was its choir.
And still, Eidor didn't flinch.
Rina whispered behind him, "You've changed."
"I'm just remembering who I always was," Eidor replied without turning. "Not who they said I should be."
She didn't know whether to cry or worship him.
The final battle didn't begin with a spell.
It began with a name.
"Eidor Vance."
He said it aloud.
And the sky shivered.
Not because the Name Eater claimed it.
But because he did.
He was no longer afraid of it.
Even if the world had turned it into a curse.
He lifted his hand, and the cursed fire surged.
The Name Eater struck first—names shot like arrows, trying to overwrite his essence. They came like laws: Silence. Fall. Obey.
Eidor answered with one word:
"No."
And the arrows shattered like glass against the storm he had become.
They fought across memories and meanings.
Every time Eidor struck, the Name Eater lost part of itself.
It howled in colors. It bled silence.
But Eidor never stopped.
His fire didn't just burn.
It rewrote.
By the end of it, the plateau was gone. Nothing remained but a field of ash—and Eidor standing in its center, his body barely holding together.
But he had done the impossible.
He hadn't killed the Name Eater.
He had named it.
And that meant it could bleed.