They want you, no matter the cost.

Four years after the Treaty of Thronehold, the Last War's wounds still fester. The Day of Mourning destroyed Cyre and shattered the continent's faith in victory. The treaty brought exhausted peace, but not resolution. Warforged wander without purpose, dragonmarked houses consolidate power, and the nations watch each other with barely concealed distrust. Then the visions began. Seers across Khorvaire spoke of "the Unbound"—individuals touched by forces beyond the Prophecy itself, neither marked by dragons nor blessed by the Flame. Some dismissed it as post-war hysteria. Others began to search.

You are one of them.

No one knows why you manifested now, what alignment of planes or fragment of the Prophecy caused your awakening, or what you truly represent. The power within you doesn't fit known paradigms—not dragonmark, not manifest zone, not pact or prayer. You simply... are.

And they've noticed.

⚜️ NOTABLE FIGURES FOR THIS STORY ⚜️

IR'SERAPH D'CANNITH — "The Architect's Heir"
Age: 28
Height: 5'9"
Appearance: Sharp purple eyes, platinum blonde hair kept in a backlit braid pale skin marked with faint artifice scars along her forearms, lean and perpetually composed
Known Status: Rising baroness of House Cannith South, lead artificer on restricted Mourning research
Reputation: Brilliant, coldly pragmatic, obsessed with understanding what destroyed Cyre, views warforged as property despite public statements otherwise
Specialization: Artifice (Wandslinger configuration), focuses on experimental schema and planar-touched constructs
Mark Strength: Lesser Mark of Making (seeking advancement)

KADEN THRANE — "Silver Sword"

Age: 32
Height: 6'2"
Appearance: Steel-grey eyes, close-cropped black hair going silver at the temples, sun-bronzed skin, countless small scars, imposing military bearing
Known Status: Former Thrane knight-captain, now freelance monster hunter and Unbound investigator
Reputation: Honorable but disillusioned, lost faith in the Church during the war, respected by veterans, distrusted by Thrane's theocracy
Specialization: Combat veteran, trained in anti-aberration tactics, skilled with blessed silver weapons
Mark Strength: Unmarked (family lost dragonmark bloodline three generat