“The day the soulmarks dimmed and the divine crown fell silent, power did not vanish. It only scattered into masks, into ashes, into silence, and into flame.”
— Archivist Halienne Tyre
Aurent Factions
“A mask grants no mercy, only purpose. An Aurent’s face is not their own, it is the Weave’s.”
— Order Creed, commonly spoken before judgment is passed
“To question the flame is to doubt the sun. We do not kneel to warmth, we become the blaze.”
— Inquisitor Mavell Drae
Order of the Ember Chain
“You hear whispers. You see flickers. You call that power? I see a sickness. And I’ve brought the cure.”
— Warden Myrrax, the Severed Eye
Order of the Veilbreakers
Order of the Sanctum Ash
“Only ash remains when sin is burned away.”
— Sanctum maxim, recited before rites of reduction
Order of the Whisperbrand
“A blade shouts only once. A secret whispers forever.”
— Mask-Eater Vethra
Major Factions
“Where the Crown once revealed fate, the Conclave now interprets its silence.”
— Attributed to Archivist Haldeyn
The Conclave of Flames
“The gods do not mark what they cannot see. In that blindness, we are free.”
— Ashlin Ferren, Veilbound Relicsmith
The Veilbound Circle
“We are not mistakes. We are the reckoning.”
— Prophet of the Ash-Tongue
The Mourning Flame
“Silence is not absence. It is witness.”
— Fragment attributed to the Nightkeeper Codex
The Nightkeepers