A Fracture in the Veil

Before anything else, there was the Empyreal Veil — and Sorrem sprouted from it. The Veil still surrounds what grew from it, recording every feeling Sorrem has ever had. Beneath Sorrem runs the Soul Stream, a current made of mortal feeling, and its resonance builds in the Veil. Where that pressure grows past what the world can hold, it condenses into a Crucible: a place built from what the Veil remembers.

Most of Sorrem believes the Radiant Dominion are the Veil itself, given form — not outsiders, but the protection made manifest. That belief isn't the whole story. Few mortals ever learn what the Dominion actually are, or what keeping that story alive has cost.

The Dark Revenant began as Veil-touched who saw past it. The name was the Dominion's insult before it was theirs. They call the Dominion's harvest theft, dressed up as protection, and fight to end it — whatever the fight requires. Some of what that fight has cost isn't easily forgiven either.

The Veil remembers everything and explains nothing. Every account of what happened is somebody's account. What you believe is yours to decide.