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The Age of Light

After Keeper of the Light left the Fundamental plane, an age of light began; Dawnbreaker's own history gives it that name.

Valora wakes beneath a new star, with her makers gone and their last command unfulfilled.

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The story

After left the Fundamental plane, an age of light began; 's own history gives it that name. Some of the first sun's lineage became the , raised armies against primordial night, and made Valora as their greatest living weapon. Their last plan sent her after a source of power Valora leaves unnamed in her own account.

She failed, and the Children's spark went out; by her own words the failure had to do with Io, and with the chaos her makers had meant to turn Io's power against. Valora drifted until a wandering young star restored their buried forge and woke her. Phoenix, a young traveling star of the first sun's lineage, fits the reviver's description.

keeps a separate memory of the same darkness: at the dawn of the First Day every creature of night but Balanar perished.

Dawnbreaker's history names the age. Phoenix fits the star that woke her, and the First Day may be the same darkness; neither is said outright.

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Valora wonders whether her failed mission helped free the prisoners of the Mad Moon.

The Fall of the Mad Moon

Connections

Chaos KnightEnemyKeeper of the Light
He hunts the light across every plane of existence, and the light he hunts may well be his own brother.
Chaos KnightFamilyKeeper of the LightImplied
Brothers by the Schism, hunter and hunted by nature; the light Chaos Knight chases may well be Ezalor himself.
Chaos KnightFamilyIo
Brothers of the Schism. Chaos Knight pursues Io to bring him back to the plane the abandoned.
Keeper of the LightCreatedChildren of Light
The Keeper lit the first sun; the Children of Light are its descendants, carrying on his light-work after he abandoned it.
Children of LightCreatedDawnbreaker
The Golden Lords forged Dawnbreaker to be their champion against chaos and darkness.
Children of LightEnemyIoImplied
The Children sent after a source of great power, meaning to bind chaos with it. That power was Io, and her failure was the end of them.
Children of LightEnemyChaos KnightImplied
The Children raised armies against chaos and meant to stop and bind Chaos Knight himself, with Io's power as the chain.
DawnbreakerRivalryIoImplied
Valora once wanted to kill Io for her masters' demise. She no longer walks that path, but the old grievance is not forgotten.
DawnbreakerFamilyKeeper of the Light
Ezalor 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.
Children of LightFamilyPhoenixImplied
Both belong to the first sun's wider stellar lineage, Phoenix as an infant son of suns and the Children as some among its heirs. Whether one descends from the other, neither says.
PhoenixRevivedDawnbreakerImplied
An 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 StalkerEnemyChildren of LightImplied
The Children of Light built armies to purge primordial night; the First Day killed every night creature but Balanar. Whether the one caused the other, neither account says.
Night StalkerEnemyDawnbreakerImplied
The Children's living weapon and the last of the creatures they hunted, on the same field.

The game's own words about this cast

Starbreaker · Ability · Dawnbreaker
Across the vast lineage of star progeny, there were multitudes unwilling to align with the aims of the . To those who dared organize defiance, the Children would dispatch and her hammer to show a measure of their power--to leave the rebels either shattered or set back to rights.

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