The Shadow Knight
Their sacrifice powered whatever grew here at the Necropolis's heart.
At the tree's base, a small patch of dark soil waited, incongruous among the bones and stone. The Shadow Knight knelt before it, shadows swirling around him as he considered what seed identity might require.
The answer came from memory the Hunger Shades had failed to devour, that the trials had failed to transform. He reached into the essence of what had once been his heart, extracting a fragment of who Kaelen Dawnblade had been: the knight who believed justice served truth, who protected the innocent, who stood against darkness.