The angels that remained became servants of Maeve, the first to turn, now called Starlight. They hunted down any Marginer that chose to disobey the rule of dark gods, executing them. Some stories even say they found a way to banish living creatures into the fallen realm, the place were Terah endlessly battles the Nameless Terror, but those are just stories.
Good emerged too, though. A group of Marginers started by a woman in a strange mask. Amber’s Seal they called themself, later becoming the Amber Seal. they were the historians, the keepers of lost knowledge, the storytellers and the adventurers. They collected those with a knack for storytelling and brought tales of a happier time in the universe to dark worlds.
Meanwhile, in that distant Vale the man Ember regained his strength, becoming brother to Caliope and son to Daya, but that Vale did not call him. Soon he set out, choosing a new name, Kane he called himself, a name chosen from a tale he couldnt quite remember.
He set out, without knowledge of the other Marginers both working for the shadow and fighting it, to collect and share stories. He traveled world to world, tracking down people of interest and recording their stories in a dragonscale journal Daya had gifted him.
The world’s passed swiftly by, but Kane had an objective, a place he needed to find. Daya had told him stories of the Ancients, and with his locks of white hair, their images looked the same as every time he looked in the mirror. He searched for Autaria, for the city of dreams, and in the end he found it.
A black city on a sea of white sands. Color drifting between the buildings, a great golden bell and the shadows of what had once bean people going about their lives in that city. The blood of ancients was long gone.
In the vales things were changing. The Vales that remained began to shift to darker times, warshiping dark gods. One vale in particular, the Lake, fell particularly hard. At the prompting of a remanent of the Nameless Terror they created the labrinth, sacrificing all the children of their strange land to it’s knawing hunger and strange twisting time. One such sacrifice, a young Marginer by the name of Meyhra Redwing found herself in these depths.
Meyhra traveled the twists and turns of the Labrinth, facing the shadowed leaders of her home’s twisted challenges and somehow winning. She fought for a way to be free, until one day she fell through the roof of an inn, onto the bed of a white haired man with eyes the color of bloody starlight.
Across the universe a girl wandered, blue hair and black eyes, strange powers held deep within and a memory locked away. She mixed with the Amber Seal occasionally, trading tales with their members or helping them away from particularly dangerous worlds, but through it all she searched for a way to remove her truth seal.
The worlds continued to move through space and time. Kane took Meyhra on as his apprentice and they traveled the worlds together. The thirteenth Noble, shattered by the things she had seen at the tower and the nameless terror’s comming, sat beside a lake for hundreds of years, alone. The heir, Blue she called herself, listened to bard’s stories about a silver eyed angel and a red haired demon.
Kane and Meyhra began drawing attention with their stories, and quickly learned how easily marginers turned on one another. They were chased across the creation, taking shelter in abandoned vales and empty planets, until someone caught up to them. A man with strang twisting spirals for eyes.
As this strange marginer was about to deal the killing blow, Kane and Meyhra were saved by the Amber Seal, which they promptly joined. The flute Kane so dutifully carried across the universe prompted questions, and he answered them best he could. His magic drew other attention.
Ever since the fall his power had manifested itself in the form of grey ash, pulled from the now cracked and broken dreamscape. A place, once shaded as the night now sunny as a dessert and filled with cracks leading to the darkness around the first vale. Ash filled the air there, and coated the obsidian ground. It was a place of nightmare and memory, all hot scorching sun and dry ash.
A very long time passed, the universe moving on as it should. Darkness rose and fell like the tide, consuming world after world and Starlight sought Kane, the strange Marginer that had long managed to evade her clutches.
Blue searched for him as well, with less malicious intent. She heard stories of him, of the margener supposedly from before the fall, the one with strange powers, and she remembered a time when there had been so many.
The gods grew more angry, many seeking to take over the domains of their once siblings. They clashed, and every place they fought became strange and wrought with dark magic. There was no light left on the worlds where a god died.
The Amber Seal attempted to keep the peace, protecting mortals and saving stories the ebst they could, but even with all their talents and powers combined it was not enough. Most world’s were torn by war, and on Alta, one of the port world’s, the world that had fallen hardest all those years ago, a new god was born from the carnage and violence.
He called himself Cass and he wore a stone mask. Alta was the world of the Lost, the creatures warped and twisted by the raw magic of the exposed well of power at the center of the planet, and he became their God. It was now a race between all the other Aetyri to get to him first, to turn and twist him into their own cruel design. This was when Kane first began to look.
Kane had heard whispers of this strange new god, a seemingly impossible thing. Without Terah there were no new gods. Starlight managed to find him first, they fought and after that she had only one eye. Kane went looking, he found the world, the grove of trees where Cass dwelt, but he was turned away by the vast unknown magic surrounding the place.
The Amber Seal watched from a distance, making sure whatever happened on Alta stayed on Alta. a woman with a sun painted on her cheek watched from the shadows, studying this new god. She had already come into the story many times before now, met all the heroes, but none of them would remember her, even when the boy Kane would come face to face with her.
Kane returned to the home of the Amber Seal, and when he got there a little girl with Blue hair was waiting. He reconized her from his dreams, but from a life before she was a stranger. They touched hands, and Kane was sucked into her fearscape.
Good gods were few and far between these days, and an Aetyri, the heir of Terah herself was a good advantage. In the end Kane and Meyhra were the only others who knew. Blue came to live with them, working closer with the Amber Seal than ever before.
Now all this was happening, and on a distant world, Avia, or so it was called, Starlight was struggling to take hold. Avia was the most technologically advanced after the fall, and it’s magic was paralleled to few.
On Avia there was a specific type of magic, the magic of the sun and the moon, and it was said that children of an eclipse were born with the ability to harness great power. Now starlight wanted this power, one of these children to help her take the inner worlds.
Kane, now masquerading as Dune, a name chosen by Blue, heard about this. He rallied marginers at his back and traveled to Avia, attempting to do anything to stop Starlight. In the end it was just he and Meyhra, standing against Starlight. Two children had bean born during the eclipse, a little boy named Caster and a little girl Dune called Doubt.
They were too late. By the time they arrived Starlight had already destroyed Avia and taken Casteras her own. Dune managed to save Doubt and send her with Meyhra to a distant world called Avenar, in the Alta system. Starlight took Dune as well, keeping him prisoner in the center of a dead planet.