On Avenar, the god Chaos and her daughter Dawn dwelt. They were mad in their own ways, not seeking destruction or domination like Starlight, but nonetheless their minds were gone. Dawn, once the kindest of the gods, happy and bringing with her the light of song and family was silent, dwelling with closed eyes, tears falling like rain. Chaos stood behind her daughter, anger fuling her motives. She sought Starlight, blaming her for her daughter’s fate.
Meyhra sought out these gods, attempting to place Doubt in their care, but they refused. Meyhra made the decision to raise Doubt on her own for the first year. The child was young and afraid and as silent as the fallen god.
The universe moved on, and the Watcher, one of the last Centuri watched all this happen. She was filled with her own anger and hate, dark and crawling like the rot that had doomed the universe. She hated the creations that had taken away everyone she had loved, she hated Dune for stealing the flute, the last relic of Terah, she hated Terah for what she had done, she hated herself for letting the creation fall the way it did.
The water had been bound long ago to the tree in the first vale, unable to leave, unable to do anything but watch the universe fall. So with all her sight she created an object, a twisted blade, made from every power she could reach. And with this blade, she hunted.
The Amber Seal faltered in their power. With Dune gone, with many of their members gone, they pulled back, recovering from their losses and dealing with the weight of the universe. Red and Song, the two marginers who had originaly recruited Dune and Meyhra, took the lead, collecting books of prophecy.
In the heart of that dead planet Dune sat and waited, alone and in the dark. He watched Starlight, watched the boy Caster grow up under her tutelage, and he watched him grow dark. One day though, as Dune sat bound in chains of stained glass, a young woman approached him. Not Starlight or one of her disciples, a storyteller from an age long passed. Mad like the gods, lost and wandering, drawn to dune by his strange power and by her own fractured memory.
They escaped that place together, and Dune went searching for Meyhra, following her steps across the universe, but when he arrived on Avenar she was gone, leaving Doubt with a traveling monk, Madric. He met the child, and left behind a pendant to protect her before once again taking flight.
Dune and the Lady traveled to the edge of the creation, to where Dune knew the last of the Angels dwelt. The Angels were less than pleased to find one of their order that had long ago abandoned them. A battle broke out, and Dune and the Lady were forced to flee. He sent her east, to the open arms of the Amber Seal, while he continued to Avenar. He waited there, for ten years, waiting for the young Doubt to come of age.
The universe fell farther during these years. The gods, corruption and greed clashed, and greed died over a small world known as Sourin. Starlight sent her minions to Avenar and the Watcher stole away Red from the amber seal, replacing his eyes with the twisting spirals of her madness and power.
Dune’s dreams came more and more often, and the person he had only seen shadows of in the dreamscape came forwards and spoke to him. A young person with violet eyes and strange silver-prism hair. They told him about his youth, helped fill the gaps in his memory and showed him glimpses of the past.
Finally Starlight decided it was time to attack. She sent her minions ahead and followed in their shadows, creeping towards Avenar. Human kingdoms burned and a young queen, Oma of Larkhold swore fengance against the shadow that had destroyed her home and killed her family.
Doubt and Madric struck out, joining the queen, and collecting the aid of healers and thieves to destroy the shadow. Dune followed behind, watching and waiting. Meyhra ran across world’s, fleeing from a past that refused to stay dead. Blue and the Lady met one another and hid from Starlight’s gaze in the mountains of a distant vale, at the feet of Daya.
Red returned to the Amber seal, bearing the weapon the watcher had created to kill the silver eye’d angel, and killed any who crossed his path. Song saw this and fled to Avenar, searching for Meyhra.
Daya decided to send Blue out to search for the lost bones of long dead dragons. She had looked into the future and despratly searched for a way to save her son. Starlight arrived on Avenar, and the heroes, thinking they had won against her