Dissonant Flame
Author: MDW
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Location: The Hollow Altar, Beneath the Fractured God-Spine

The altar was not made of stone.

It was bone—vast ribs of a dead Sovereign, fossilized in thought, humming with pre-verbal frequencies that bent time around them.

Hazeed stood before it, arms bare, eyes seething with fractured light.

Before him knelt his chosen.

A man stripped of name, future, and identity.

Once a Citadel Dream-Historian.

Now? A vessel of blasphemy sanctified.

“Speak your former truth,” Hazeed commanded.

The man looked up. “I once believed the Weave could unify us.”

“Was it wrong?”

“It was incomplete.”

“Then you are ready.”

Hazeed drew a blade not forged, but remembered—made from the scream of a dying god and the silence that followed.

He carved no wound, but a concept across the man’s forehead.

The Glyph of Discontinuity.

With it, the man’s old beliefs were undone.

His name was rewritten in reverse.

His dreams unanchored from the Citadel Codex.

He had become the first of the Dissonant Flame.

The altar flare
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