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Release 2: Does It End, Death Prophet?
Does It End, Death Prophet?
CanonUndying asks the one woman who has died and come back whether it ends.
Ties back to earlier releasesThe Age of Light
HeroDawnbreaker
Valora is the living weapon of the Children of Light, molded from a young metallic star and charged with life by her makers' golden breath.
“Darkness fears the break of dawn!”
Appears in 5 stories
Valora is the living weapon of the , molded from a young metallic star and charged with life by her makers' golden breath. Their last plan sent her to seize an unnamed source of great power. She failed, the Children were extinguished, and Valora drifted for untold millennia before crashing on an unfamiliar world.
By her own later words the campaign had to do with Io, and she wonders aloud whether her own transgression freed 's wards, though she puts that only as speculation. A wandering young star eventually restored the Children's buried forge and woke her. Phoenix fits that description, though neither of them has ever named the other.
IoImpliedRivalryValora once wanted to kill Io for her masters' demise. She no longer walks that path, but the old grievance is not forgotten.
Arc WardenImpliedAcquaintanceDawnbreaker knows Zet's role and addresses his unfinished duty; whether her fall freed his wards is her own speculation.
Keeper of the LightCanonFamilyEzalor is her great-grandfather by the first sun's line. She is humbled by him and furious at him at once, for letting the flicker out.
PhoenixImpliedRevived byAn unnamed wandering young star fueled the Children's ancient forge and restored a measure of Valora's power. Phoenix, an infant sun traveling to bring warmth where it is needed, fits the description.
Night StalkerImpliedEnemyThe Children's living weapon and the last of the creatures they hunted, on the same field.
“Thank you, young one. Without your light, the solar forge would have never called to me.”
Dawnbreaker, about Phoenix · Meeting an allyImpliedAn unnamed wandering young star fueled the Children's ancient forge and restored a measure of Valora's power. Phoenix, an infant sun traveling to bring warmth where it is needed, fits the description.
- Celestial Hammer
The is Valora's oldest companion and sole remaining connection to the glow of her creators.
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In the aeons after the Keeper's exodus birthed the age of light, some amongst the first sun's lineage began to align against the chaos their ancestor's maker left chasing in his wake. Calling themselves the Children of Light, they saw no one else as worthy of taking up the Keeper's abandoned mantle, and they yearned to beat back the onslaught of darkness, creating glorious armies built to purge the cosmos of all creatures of primordial night.
Valora, the Dawnbreaker, most prized warrior amongst the Children's ancient creations, is the shining herald of the majesty of order and light. Molded from the heart of a young metallic star, and charged by golden breath with new life, Valora was called to spread the glow of the Children's wisdom to the darkest reaches of the universe — setting fire to the heavens with each swing of her celestial hammer amidst an endless battle to keep chaos at bay.
In time, the Children also revealed another purpose for the Dawnbreaker. They had discovered a means of permeating the entirety of the cosmos with their inner light — to obliterate all aspects of darkness forever — and they sent Valora to seize a source of great power, the final piece of their ultimate plan. But for the first time, Valora and her hammer met with failure, and the price she and her masters paid was vast. The Children of Light's spark was utterly extinguished, and the Dawnbreaker was left adrift in a black expanse, lost for untold millennia before crashing on an unfamiliar world.
There she rested, dormant, until the presence of a wandering young star gave fuel to an ancient energy forge — a relic of the Children's that, like her, lay buried for countless ages beneath a blowing red waste. Now, with a small measure of her former powers restored by the forge, Valora wakes to a land beset by war and the unrelenting forces of chaos. She knows her gods may be gone, but the heft of the Dawnbreaker's hammer remains — matched only by her will to wield it justly in the name of goodness and light.