Pain is a forge. The soul, raw metal. Drakko, consumed by wrath, has walked through fire and ruin. But when the embers cool, what remains? Justice and destruction have become indistinguishable, his path twisting into something beyond recognition.

But the blackened lands left in the Dark One's wake birth more than ruin. They birth those strong enough to rise.

From the ashes of a fallen world, Dræven Tarânov emerges—not of choice, but of necessity. A child of a fractured lineage, he takes his first breath beneath an unrelenting sky, where the sins of past generations fester in the air. He is neither heir nor savior, but the one who will stand against the tide.

Time itself folds upon cursed bloodlines, weaving a labyrinth where past and future converge, where destiny is written in scars and suffering. Trained by sages who whisper of a path beyond agony, he embarks on a journey through the ruins of faith, the shattered gates of hope, and the silent halls of fate. The crucible of spiritual alchemy awaits, stripping away the illusions of self, dissolving him until only essence remains. The Reddening ignites—the moment when suffering is transmuted into revelation, where despair becomes the fire of awakening.

Yet among the birth of the new, the old returns. The Shadow Reborn.

Will Dræven emerge from the abyss, transfigured and unbroken? Or will he, like those before him, be swallowed whole—another name lost to eternity?

A tale of transformation and annihilation, where the boundaries between man and monster, curse and salvation, darkness and light dissolve into a single, searing truth.

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