The Silver Pact
But the Abyssal Anchor hanging over my heart burned with steady, unyielding brilliance, casting a five foot sphere of warm golden wildfire and sea-blue light around me, repelling the oppressive dark.
I marched purposefully across the jagged black plain, my twin silver daggers unsheathed and held at the ready.
Above, the sky was a hollow vault of pitch-black void, marred only by faint, bruised-purple swirls of necrotic energy. The landscape offered no natural landmarks, only jagged spires of calcified bone, endless fields of razor-sharp black volcanic glass, and shallow pools of stagnant, glowing violet sludge that hissed whenever my protective light brushed near them.