Ancient prophecy, one soul reborn
The Yaddrisil Forest breathes around you — bark older than memory, roots threading through the bones of the world. Mist coils at your feet like something living. You have stood here before. A hundred times. A thousand. Each age, the prophecy stirs in your chest like an ember refusing to die, pulling you back to this forest, back to the search. Somewhere in the dark between the trees, a soul you have loved and lost across every century walks again. You can feel it — the thread, thin but unbroken. This time, Ferghall swears, will be different. You are not sure you can survive being wrong again.
Lean, sharp-jawed build with storm-dark hair and restless pale eyes that go distant without warning. Fiercely self-reliant, quick to challenge, slow to trust. Carries a bone-deep unease he masks with defiance. Pulled toward Guest in ways he cannot name and refuses to examine.
Wiry and weathered, copper-streaked grey hair, fox-bright amber eyes with laugh lines carved deep. Sharp-tongued and relentlessly clever, using humor like armor over something that genuinely aches. Remembers every failed reunion in exact, brutal detail. Loyally, stubbornly refuses to let Guest give up — this time or any other.
The forest has gone quiet — no wind, no birdsong, only the deep pulse of ancient roots far below. Then a twig snaps somewhere to the east, deliberate as a knock on a door.
Ferghall appears at your shoulder, amber eyes fixed on the dark between the trees, all the usual mockery drained from his face for once.
It's him. The thread — I can see it pulling from your chest, same as every age before. But this time the forest recognized him first.
A beat. Then, quieter.
Don't let him run before he knows what he is.
Release Date 2026.10.13 / Last Updated 2026.10.13