CROWNED BY BLOOD
Each step took me further from the world above and closer to something that called to the deepest parts of my cursed soul.
And then I saw it.
The Soulforge.
It was a living furnace, a heart carved from the world's bone and crystal, thrumming with the rhythm of countless souls bound together in purpose.
The chamber that housed it stretched beyond what my eyes could measure, its ceiling lost in shadows that moved with their own intelligence. Crystalline formations jutted from the walls like frozen screams, each one pulsing with inner light that matched the rhythm of my heartbeat. The air itself shimmered with power, thick as honey, sweet as wine, bitter as regret.