All Chapters of Blood of The Shattered Moon: Chapter 21 - Chapter 27

The weeks that follow are a whirlwind of activity. Word spreads through the underground networks that there's a new power in Varelle. Two bonded individuals who survived the Core Sea and emerged transformed. Who defeated the Bloodwraith curse. Who offer sanctuary to the cursed and the hunted.People start arriving at the Opal Citadel. First, a trickle. A Runeborn woman whose lightning magic got out of control and killed her family. She's been on the run from the Kaldrim authorities for two years. A Marshborn man cursed by the Tide Court for refusing to join their military. A young Lyrani boy whose prophetic visions are so powerful they've driven him halfway to madness. We take them all in. Teach them control. Give them purpose. And the trickle becomes a stream.Thessia provides logistics—finding housing, arranging work, managing resources. Kael handles security and training, teaching people to use their powers defensively. And I work with those whose magic is out of control, showing t

The weeks that follow are a whirlwind of activity. Word spreads through the underground networks that there's a new power in Varelle. Two bonded individuals who survived the Core Sea and emerged transformed. Who defeated the Bloodwraith curse. Who offer sanctuary to the cursed and the hunted.People start arriving at the Opal Citadel. First, a trickle. A Runeborn woman whose lightning magic got out of control and killed her family. She's been on the run from the Kaldrim authorities for two years. A Marshborn man cursed by the Tide Court for refusing to join their military. A young Lyrani boy whose prophetic visions are so powerful they've driven him halfway to madness. We take them all in. Teach them control. Give them purpose. And the trickle becomes a stream.Thessia provides logistics—finding housing, arranging work, managing resources. Kael handles security and training, teaching people to use their powers defensively. And I work with those whose magic is out of control, showing t

They come at dawn, when the twin moons are setting and the sun is just beginning to rise.The gods. The fragments of the Mother.I feel them before I see them—a pressure in the air that makes it hard to breathe, a weight on reality itself. Through the bond, I feel Kael wake beside me, his consciousness snapping to alertness.*They're here,* I send.*I know. I can feel them.*We dress quickly and make our way to the courtyard. The entire sanctuary is waking, people emerging from buildings with fear and wonder on their faces. Because the sky has changed. Where there was once just azure and clouds, there are now figures. Massive, radiant, terrible figures that dwarf the buildings below.Irethiel appears as a woman made of silver flame, her face veiled, her eyes burning with prophetic fire. She floats above the northern section of the city.Vorrak manifests as a figure of crimson light and shadow, his form constantly shifting between man and beast and something in between. He hovers over