Spectacle

On the 29th Mirrors, a storm gathers above the nightmare-ridden city of Song-Lu. Vivid blue and magenta lightning crackles through the clouds and the wind howls around the city’s borders, fiercely enough to knock even the strongest off their feet. Onlookers summoned here through dreams or rumours watch from a safe distance on a nearby mountainside, holding their breath as a vast silhouette emerges from the clouds.

Eight gossamer wings unfurl, trailing mist and shimmering with opalescent colour. Iryneia, child of Iridus, descends from the sky.

Flanked by their sentinel noculi, they alight outside what was once the grand main gate of Song-Lu city. Raising their head, an ethereal melody fills the air, sending a wave of dizziness over everyone who can hear. Iryneia remains like this for a long time, singing and weaving a dream-like magic, until suddenly the gates burst open. Confetti flies out from the colourful madness within the city, and a giant white fox - like something from Songluan myth - leaps through.

It carries a bloodied body in its jaws, which it lays down at Iryneia’s feet. The god child touches its head briefly before it leaps back inside the city. Before long, more people stumble out through the gate - bedraggled and bewildered, but alive. These are the last survivors who were trapped within the city.

Quickly, Iryenia scoops them all up onto their long, chitinous body and flies to the mountain where the onlookers have gathered. As they draw near, their body shifts, transforming from divine beast to an elderly woman. With a now-human voice, the god child entrusts the survivors back to their own people - in particular, the bleeding, mangled body of their lost Chancellor Tor’ang.

With the city now truly empty, a rumble of magic shakes the air. In the storm overhead, the outline of Iridus’ wings flash before lightning and thunderclouds pour down on the buildings below. At the same time, a ring of earth spikes up around the city, and water from the sea flows in to surround it. Before everyone’s eyes, the land is reforged to lock away the mad capital. When the quaking finally calms, Song-Lu city is no longer visible - only a volcano-like island off the reshaped coast remains, shrouded in mist and clouds. Within it, the fiery madness - beyond even the power of the gods to dispel - will continue to dance, but now none shall set foot inside it again.

Thus does Song-Lu, the harbour that once built and named this region, come to an end.

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Tale of Ash and Blood

Song-Lu’s madness is finally put to rest, but its story has not. What of the ‘fire god’ and mysterious Huozai crystal? To those gathered on the mountain, Iryneia has a tale to tell. A cutscene-style RP will begin on 27 December.

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