Safrin
The moment his lips brushed her fingers, starlight pulsed beneath Safrin’s skin — subtle but immediate, like the breath of a sun caught between eclipses. She didn’t pull away. Instead, her hand lingered for a moment longer in his grasp, her expression inscrutable but no longer cold.
"You want to face the enemy with clarity?" she murmured, her voice quiet but thick with purpose. "Then see." With a wave of her hand, the shrine dimmed. Candles guttered into stillness. And before them, suspended in the air like a frozen constellation, a rough map of Starfall began to form.
Made of starlight and shadows, the island pulsed with slow, ghostly light — jagged coastlines, twisting ridges, and a cratered interior that swirled like smoke. Safrin stepped beside him, eyes locked on the projection. "Here," she said, her fingertip hovering over the shoreline. "This is where Remi, Ronin, Sunjata, and Deimos placed a flower. Their work has held — the void cannot get near it."
But then she swept her hand inward.
The projection tilted, peeled back like layers of a dream — showing tunnels beneath the island. "Beneath the surface, the terrain shifts," she said. "Poisoned flora. Void-twisted beasts. Caverns filled with death." As she spoke, shadowy shapes of wings and jaws flickered in and out of view, rising and falling like echoes.
"And deeper still..." The stars rearranged, tightening, becoming narrow coils — claustrophobic tunnels, winding like the path of something ancient and serpentine. "Tunnels carved by something certainly not of this world."
Then, a sudden bloom of light — an underground lake, strange and black, steam hissing from it in pulses. "The Arclight runs beneath the island of course," she murmured. "But here it is corrupted — turned to vapour, cloaking the caverns in poisoned mist. There are things in the water, Koa. Not dragons. Not beasts. Things that should not be."
And then, finally, a hush.
A new chamber shimmered into view — an antechamber, carefully constructed, with void symbols etched into the stone. Safrin’s expression cooled. "This is where it begins to change," she said softly. "This place was shaped. Built. Birthed."
Her voice dropped as the map expanded one last time, revealing a central, pulsing chamber, slick and strange, the starlight flickering uncomfortably around its shape. "They are growing something," Safrin said, eyes narrowing. "The god many of you saw in your dreams." She let the image hang in the air between them for a moment, letting it burn itself into Koa’s mind before turning her gaze back to him.
Koa's plot critical plot info has revealed that there are 4 levels to Starfall before reaching the "god".
"You want to face the enemy with clarity?" she murmured, her voice quiet but thick with purpose. "Then see." With a wave of her hand, the shrine dimmed. Candles guttered into stillness. And before them, suspended in the air like a frozen constellation, a rough map of Starfall began to form.
Made of starlight and shadows, the island pulsed with slow, ghostly light — jagged coastlines, twisting ridges, and a cratered interior that swirled like smoke. Safrin stepped beside him, eyes locked on the projection. "Here," she said, her fingertip hovering over the shoreline. "This is where Remi, Ronin, Sunjata, and Deimos placed a flower. Their work has held — the void cannot get near it."
But then she swept her hand inward.
The projection tilted, peeled back like layers of a dream — showing tunnels beneath the island. "Beneath the surface, the terrain shifts," she said. "Poisoned flora. Void-twisted beasts. Caverns filled with death." As she spoke, shadowy shapes of wings and jaws flickered in and out of view, rising and falling like echoes.
"And deeper still..." The stars rearranged, tightening, becoming narrow coils — claustrophobic tunnels, winding like the path of something ancient and serpentine. "Tunnels carved by something certainly not of this world."
Then, a sudden bloom of light — an underground lake, strange and black, steam hissing from it in pulses. "The Arclight runs beneath the island of course," she murmured. "But here it is corrupted — turned to vapour, cloaking the caverns in poisoned mist. There are things in the water, Koa. Not dragons. Not beasts. Things that should not be."
And then, finally, a hush.
A new chamber shimmered into view — an antechamber, carefully constructed, with void symbols etched into the stone. Safrin’s expression cooled. "This is where it begins to change," she said softly. "This place was shaped. Built. Birthed."
Her voice dropped as the map expanded one last time, revealing a central, pulsing chamber, slick and strange, the starlight flickering uncomfortably around its shape. "They are growing something," Safrin said, eyes narrowing. "The god many of you saw in your dreams." She let the image hang in the air between them for a moment, letting it burn itself into Koa’s mind before turning her gaze back to him.
Koa's plot critical plot info has revealed that there are 4 levels to Starfall before reaching the "god".
