Nysera the Goddess of Secrets
"Yes, my lord. The lanterns belonging to the three who entered... they did not shatter. The names engraved upon them simply dissolved, leaving the glass blank."
Now, that was fundamentally impossible. Soul lanterns did not simply extinguish and lose their inscriptions all at once without a cataclysmic cause or a very great, ancient power behind them. The God of Corruption slowly turned his attention toward the Abyssal Pit, where the endless, absolute darkness stared back at him as it always had—ancient, silent, and watchful. Malzareth's expression remained perfectly calm, but internally, his thoughts sharpened.