The Nomad Star
Zet and Dragonus find themselves inside a mountain that is an Ancient, and Zet, who built a prison for two of them, cannot say which one this is.
Zet stands inside an Ancient he cannot name, while Dragonus watches time run the wrong way.
and find themselves inside a mountain that is an Ancient, and Zet, who built a prison for two of them, cannot say which one this is. Dragonus reaches for the obvious explanation, a shard of the . Zet rejects it.
This is a different Ancient, fractal in form, and time here now moves in the opposite direction. The two he knows, Diruulth and Radinthul, what Dragonus would call his brothers, were the ones he imprisoned in the moon. His knowledge of what surrounds them is incomplete, he admits.
So the mountain stays what he found it, an old god no one has named, matched to nothing else known, inside which time runs backward, whatever it does elsewhere.
A Crownfall comic in Zet's voice, a participant whose knowledge is incomplete by his own admission. Brothers is his analogy for Dragonus, not genealogy.
Zet's depleted power fails to hold the Mad Moon together as Radiant and Dire fight inside the prison he knows.
The Fall of the Mad Moon- Arc WardenSet inThe Nomad StarOnly in this telling
Inside it with , and unable to say what it is.
- RadiantFamilyDire
Siblings from the same shattered mind, and the two sides of every war fought on the Ancients' ground.
- Arc WardenFamilyRadiant
Zet's sibling and one of his two wards, sealed in the ; Zet would end it to restore unity.
- Arc WardenFamilyDire
Zet's sibling and his second ward, sealed in the beside ; Zet would end it too.
- RadiantBound withinThe Mad Moon
Radinthul was imprisoned within the Mad Moon before it broke.
- DireBound withinThe Mad Moon
Diruulth was imprisoned within the Mad Moon before it broke.
- Arc WardenCreatedThe Mad Moon
Zet forged the Mad Moon as the prison, at the cost of most of his own power.
- Nemestice: Mysterious Meteorites Strike the Heart of the Battlefield · Valve text 2021
In the wake of the 's destruction, willful fragments of and crashed upon our world. But a third type of stone—, warped remnants of the shattered moon still unswayed by either petulant Ancient and bursting with 's sacrificed power—was left drifting behind. Aeons later, Nemestice at last makes landfall to disrupt their battle, and to those who would hold power over both Ancients, there is no greater prize.