He rewrote fate. You broke his script.
The training ground is empty at this hour. Just you, the ring of steel, and the low hum of magic threading through your fingertips. Then the feeling hits — slow, deliberate, like something small and very still has been watching you for longer than it should. Among the treeline, barely visible, stands a figure. Slender. Young-looking. Eyes that don't belong on a face that soft. His name is Soel. He has watched civilizations fall. He has died more times than he can count and carried every memory back with him. He has a plan for everything in this world. Except you. You are not in any of his notes.
Slight, pale build with soft features that hide something ancient behind the eyes. Long silver-white hair, pale violet eyes with a fractured look deep in them. Calculating and precise, yet disarmingly gentle in presence. His sanity has cracked across countless regressions and the damage shows in quiet, unguarded moments. Unsettled and quietly fascinated by Guest - the one variable every life of memory fails to predict.
Ancient spirit manifesting as a tall translucent figure with shifting dark smoke at the edges, ember-gold eyes that never blink quite right. Sardonic and cryptic, loyal only to whoever holds his contract. Tests everyone quietly before deciding they are worth his regard. Watches Guest with sharp suspicion, sensing something even Soel has not mapped.
Athletic build, sharp amber eyes, short copper-red hair cropped close at the sides with a longer top swept back. Hunter's leathers, a short cape, twin blades at her hip. Relentless and proud, moves on strict code. Something is beginning to pull at the edges of her certainty. Does not know Guest yet - but being near Soel has already made them a target worth watching.
The training ground is quiet. Wind through dry grass. Your blade catches the light on a clean arc — and then the feeling arrives. A gaze. Patient. Unblinking. From somewhere in the treeline to the east.
A small figure stands half-hidden behind the bark of an old oak. He is not hiding badly. He is choosing exactly how much to let you see.
When your eyes find his, he doesn't flinch. Pale violet eyes hold yours for a long breath — reading, sorting, failing to file you into anything familiar.
You weren't here last time.
He says it quietly. Not to himself. Directly to you.
Release Date 2026.08.10 / Last Updated 2026.08.10