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The corruption reached us before the enemy did.I felt it first as a disturbance in the network connections suddenly going dark as northern alliance members lost contact with the broader collective. Not the clean severance of death, but something worse: a gradual dimming as their abilities were slowly drained away."Three more settlements have gone silent," Marcus reported, his face pale with exhaustion after maintaining constant communication with our scattered scouts. "The last transmission mentioned 'walking shadows' and 'hunger that devours light.'"We had gathered in the temple's main chamber as reports trickled in throughout the night. Alliance representatives sat around tables covered in maps and intelligence reports, their usual debates replaced by grim planning for a battle none of them truly understood.Through the stained glass windows, I could see the first signs of approaching dawn. Twelve hours had passed since the scouts' warning, but it felt like we had been preparing

The Void Seeker champion stood eight feet tall, its form a nightmarish fusion of wolf and shadow that seemed to absorb light from the air around it. Dark tendrils writhed from its body like living smoke, each one tipped with hunger that made my skin crawl with instinctive revulsion."You smell of stolen power," it said, its voice layered with harmonics that belonged to dozens of different supernatural bloodlines. "Eclipse Covenant, yes, but also traces of others we have consumed. How fitting that you carry fragments of our previous victories."I circled the creature warily, noting how the corruption spread from its footsteps in perfect circles. The ground beneath it was already turning to ash, the very stones cracking under the weight of unnatural emptiness."What did the Eclipse Covenant do to deserve your hatred?" I asked, genuinely curious despite the circumstances.The champion's laugh was like breaking glass mixed with distant screams. "They offered what we perfected unity throug

By evening, the Hollow Moon Temple had become the epicenter of a gathering unlike anything in recorded history. Supernatural beings from bloodlines thought extinct for centuries filled every available space, their diverse abilities creating displays of power that turned the ancient building into something from the oldest legends.I moved through the crowd carefully, my Eclipse Covenant armor humming as it adapted to interact safely with each entity I encountered. A fire-elemental's touch should have burned through normal protection, but the armor converted the heat into harmless warmth. When a being whose form flickered between past and future briefly displaced local time, the armor shielded me from temporal distortion."The interface capabilities are remarkable," observed a creature whose crystalline body refracted light into prismatic patterns. "I am Resonance of the Crystal Singers. Our frequency manipulations typically shatter organic neural networks, yet your armor allows safe co

The negotiations that followed Memory Keeper Solas's revelations were unlike anything I had ever witnessed. Supernatural beings whose very natures should have made cooperation impossible sat in circles throughout the temple, their voices raised in passionate debate about constitutional frameworks that had never been attempted in recorded history."Mandatory consent protocols," the Crystal Singer representative was arguing with a time-walker whose temporal shifts made following the conversation challenging. "Any network expansion must require unanimous agreement from all existing members.""But what about emergency situations?" the time-walker countered, their form flickering between past and future iterations. "If hostile entities attack and potential allies seek immediate connection for survival...""Then we establish emergency protocols with built-in time limits," I suggested, moving between discussion groups to monitor the various debates. "Temporary connecti

The Archival Bloodlines wasted no time beginning their evaluation. Within hours of their arrival, they had established what they called "testing protocols" carefully designed scenarios intended to stress every aspect of our confederation structure until something broke."First assessment," Chronicle announced, their crystalline form reflecting scenes of historical supernatural conflicts. "Resource scarcity pressure. Multiple alliance settlements will experience simultaneous supply shortages, creating competition that must be resolved through confederation mechanisms."I felt the manipulation immediately not natural scarcity, but artificial constraints imposed by Archival abilities. Through the network, I sensed alliance members in distant territories suddenly facing depleted food stores, failing water sources, and equipment breakdowns that couldn't be explained by normal wear."They're creating the crisis artificially," I told Darius as we stood in the