“The water does not kill you. It takes you somewhere quieter.”
“Secrets rot faster when you help them along.”
“Secrets rot faster when you help them along.”
“Nothing buried stays quiet forever. Some things just learn to whisper.”
“Soft ground makes soft people. The marsh teaches harder lessons.”
Where Ashkhar walks, fire obeys — and the world learns the price of defiance.
The land does not burn where it passes. It melts.
It does not grow heads to survive. It grows them to remember.
Where lightning strikes twice, it is because Korthyrax has turned around.
“You do not fight the wind. You endure it—if it allows you to.”
Sacred Root Crossing is a living causeway—an ancient weave of thick, gnarled roots and firmer peat threading across dark, still water like a natural bridge that was never meant for hurried feet.
Lantern Rite Crossing is a narrow causeway of packed earth and stone edging through a pair of dark marsh pools, its borders marked by low rock lines and solemn stone lantern pedestals.