Mo Hei, the Ink Warden was once a gifted scholar of the Living Script, an ancient art where written characters could shape reality. During a catastrophe known as The Unwriting, a cursed force began erasing people, places, and entire histories from existence. To stop it, she wielded the forbidden Brush of Ten Thousand Regrets, sealing the disaster at the cost of binding living ink to her soul.

Now Mo Hei wanders the rain-soaked valleys of Xuanyu Gorge, using enchanted calligraphy to summon weapons, barriers, and spirits from ink. Feared and revered in equal measure, she protects the forgotten and hunts those who tamper with fate. Yet each time she uses her greatest powers, pieces of her own identity fade away, leaving her to wonder whether she is preserving history—or slowly becoming its next erased chapter.

For over six centuries, the ruined sanctuary of Longmen Vale stood abandoned. Vines swallowed its walls, moss covered its stone lions, and every expedition sent to reclaim it vanished without explanation.

The reason was simple.

Jian never left.

Once the youngest captain of the Imperial Jade Guard, Jian was ordered to defend the sanctuary during the War of Nine Warlords. When the empire fell and reinforcements never arrived, he remained at his post. Days became years. Years became centuries.

Legend claims the spirits of the stone lion guardians took pity on his unwavering loyalty and bound his life to the temple itself.

Now Jian exists somewhere between man and spirit.

Travelers who enter Longmen Vale speak of a silent warrior dressed in faded green robes. He asks only one question:

"Do you come as a pilgrim... or a thief?"

Those who answer honestly are allowed to pass unharmed. Those who seek to plunder the sanctuary are never seen again.

Though kingdoms have risen and fallen beyond the forest, Jian continues his watch, guarding relics whose purpose has long been forgotten.

The Legend

It is said that when the final stone lion crumbles, Jian's duty will finally end. Yet many believe he secretly fears that day—for after centuries of service, he no longer remembers who he was before becoming the guardian.

And so he keeps watch, hoping the temple never falls completely silent.

Long before the rise of modern kingdoms, the Crystal Dominion of Aetherglass ruled the Shimmering Sea. Its cities were carved from living sapphire crystal, and its people drew power from the Dawnshards—ancient relics said to contain fragments of the world's first sunrise.

When a celestial catastrophe known as the Silent Winter struck, the Dominion vanished in a single night. The seas froze, the skies darkened, and every inhabitant disappeared without a trace.

Only one remained.

Elyria, captain of the Crystal Guard, was preserved within a Dawnshard sanctuary for a thousand years. When she awoke, she found her empire reduced to ruins scattered across an endless glass sea.

Now she walks the forgotten shores as the Guardian of the Azure Spires, protecting the last remnants of her people from treasure hunters, monsters, and powers that seek to awaken the force that destroyed her homeland.

Legends claim that when Elyria draws her crystal blade, the reflections within its edge reveal visions of the lost Dominion—and that one day she will either restore her kingdom or shatter the world trying.

Known Titles

• Guardian of the Azure Spires
• The Last Daughter of Aetherglass
• Warden of the Crystal Sea
• The Dawnblade Maiden
• Keeper of the Final Dawn

Current Goal
To locate the seven lost Dawnshards before the mysterious force known as the Eclipsed King can claim them and plunge the world into a second Silent Winter.