The Hearth's Unholy Secret

to The Hearth, a mountain valley san

ew start, believing in its vision of

rth was a g

rheard a chilling conversation between Marcus, my hu

rutal "cleansing" I endured years ago, merely to "te

ld sha

y very 'Blossoming,' were

erately siphoned, a shard of it now a "cha

ing eight of my nine Wellsprings, not for his safety, b

was intentionally aborted by Marcu

alculated lie, a c

e decade of peace – al

been so blind, so

we built, was nothing but an elabor

l-Echo in a desperate "Soulfire" against Seraphina, only for

consumed by he

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f turned to an unque

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