🕯 Welcome, my Midnight Romantics.

You have read the Darkborn Origins, now cross the threshold into the land of darkness and tattered souls.

You watched Sylas, Lucian, Arless, and Thorne die. You watched them accept Hel's bargain. You heard the Wolf's last words:  "...and when I wake, I'm starving."

But you did not see what came next.

I am Bryanna Thorvold, Archivist of the Forsaken, keeper of the surviving scrolls recovered from the Lorekeepers of the First Blood. What you are about to read are fragments from the Darkborn awakening.

On the first night, seventeen mortals died in Rockhavn. The draugr—as the terrified villagers called them—moved faster than any mortal, their eyes unnatural, their skin blazing with runes. No weapon could stop them. No prayer could save the innocent.

Hel watched from the edge of the mortal plane. "Balance will come once they are fed," she told Loki, god of chaos and mischief.

But balance did not come.

The Wolf knelt in blood-soaked snow, nearly lost to the hunger. Thorne's laughter turned to retching as he stared at what he'd done. Arless froze among the carnage. Lucian stared at his hands as if they belonged to someone else.

Hel's champions—the Protectors of the North—had become the very monsters their people prayed for protection against.

And as the nights stretched on, each learned a terrible truth: feeding was not enough. Balance required something more. Something they could not—would not—give.

These fragments are what remains. Incomplete and, most importantly, forbidden.

Choose your descent, Midnight Romantic. But know this: once you enter the Darkborn realm, an addictive, soul-stirring world awaits.

🕯 Fragment I: The Wolf Leader of the Darkborn. Protector. 

🕯 Fragment II: The Defender Rage incarnate. Grief-hollowed. 

🕯 Fragment III: The Warden of the North Backbone of the broken. 

🕯 Fragment IV: The Quiet Hand Pattern-seer. Self-punishing. 

The Darkborn Saga awakens Summer 2026.
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