"To walk the path of the Unwritten… is to risk forgetting your own ink."— Fragment from the Null Archive
The door slammed shut behind him.Kael was inside the Lawbreaker's Gate.
No torches. No air. No warmth.Just a vast space of… pages.
Floating. Burning. Folding. Screaming.
Each one was a name.Each one, a life.
"What is this place…" Kael whispered.
"A cemetery for stories."
The voice didn't echo.It crawled through the ink in his bones.
🪶 Scene: The Archivum Veyralis
Kael walked forward, and the pages rearranged.
A circular platform formed, suspended over nothing.Seven thrones of stone surrounded it.Each throne held a faceless statue, their heads crowned in chains.
Then one moved.
"You carry the Echo Veilbrand."
"You claim to seek the Unwritten."
"Do you understand what that means?"
Kael stood tall.
"It means I refuse to let her vanish."
"Then speak your own name."
"Kael Veyrin."
"WRONG."
🩸 Trial Begins: The Fracture of Identity
His chest seared with fire.
The Mark began spinning violently, and the name Kael Veyrin was torn from his tongue.Literally. His voice went silent.His body trembled.
Then the statues chanted:
"Name your truest self."
"Name the part you've hidden."
"Name the child who never screamed."
Kael fell to his knees.
"I… don't know who I am anymore."
The thrones pulsed.
"Correct."
🌌 Revelation: Kael's Echo Form Begins to Awaken
In that moment of silence… Kael stopped resisting.
And the Mark bloomed like a flower made of starlight and shadows.
His veins glowed.His eyes became ink-black with silver glyphs inside.And around him, time warped like a broken film reel.
He saw flashes of his past lives.Not one. Not two.Nine.
Each one… died the same way.Each one… failed.
🔥 Scene: Kael's True Name is Spoken
One of the thrones leaned forward — its mouth opened with the sound of wind moving through books.
"You were never Kael."
"You are…"
"Vayren, The Hollowborn That Remembers."
Veilbrand ignited in his hand.And with it, Kael stood again.
"I don't care if I've died nine times.""This time… I finish the story."
🔓 Trial Reward: Echo Upgrade — "Absolute Unname"
He can now erase:
Concepts
Emotions
Spells mid-cast
The memory of an attack before it lands
But… the cost?
Every use chips away at his own name.
Use it too much… and he becomes a forgotten ghost.
🌑 Final Scene: The Path to the Fold Opens
The thrones shatter.The pages burn.
A stairway of broken glass unfolds into the void above.
And at its end, a voice—Lyra's—calling his name.
"...Kael…"
"...I'm still here…"
He grips Veilbrand, and walks into the next realm.