The Shard of ValerythSome ruins are meant to stay buried.
Archivist Arin Vale has spent her life chasing the forgotten history of a shattered world. Ancient languages, lost empires, relics of impossible power—these are the puzzles that drive her north into the frozen mountains of Valeryth.
What she finds there was never meant to be discovered.
Deep beneath a black ruin older than recorded history, Arin awakens a Primordial artifact—a shard of living darkness capable of tearing open the fabric of reality itself.
For a single terrible moment, the world fractures.
Something ancient looks through.
And it looks directly at her.
Now the mountain is stirring, the ancient Dominion beyond the northern wastes has sent riders demanding her surrender, and whispers of the breach are spreading across the kingdoms of men.
Because the shard didn’t just awaken.
It recognized her.
With powerful forces closing in and an ancient Sovereign summoning her into a realm long feared by humanity, Arin must unravel the truth behind the artifact before the fragile balance of the world collapses.
But some relics were never meant to be understood.
And some doors, once opened…
cannot be closed.
