In the depths where light dares not tread, a heartbeat echoes—faint, defiant.
Lucien, once a prodigy, now a forgotten prisoner, sits shackled in eternal darkness.
Betrayed by those he trusted, condemned by the very mentors who once praised him, he awaits oblivion.
Yet, in the silence, something stirs—a whisper, ancient and void of form.
It calls to him, not with promises, but with truths long buried.
As centuries pass, the world above changes—empires rise and fall, gods wage wars, and realms collide.
But in the abyss, Lucien changes too.
When the chains finally break, it's not vengeance that drives him, but a purpose molded by the void itself.
The world will remember the name it sought to erase.
Lucien walks free, and with him, the whisper becomes a roar.
This is not a tale of redemption.
This is the genesis of the void's chosen.