"Erase a blade, and it cannot cut. Erase a name, and it cannot rise. But erase a scribe… and the world remembers what was lost."
—Verana, Memory Weaver of the Flame Codex
+31 Days After the Ashen Vault Defense
Location: Stormwatch – Mission Hall, Archive War Table
The lights dimmed as the five hologlyphs shimmered above the table — not people, but profiles. Each one pulsing with red static. These were no ordinary enemies.
These were the Scribes of Erasure — legendary Vulture agents given divine authority to rewrite entire regional histories. They were the ones who decided which names survived and which were cast into oblivion.
And now… they were Jag's next targets.
[System Questline – Phase Two of "The Memory War"]
Primary Objective: Eliminate all five active Scribes of Erasure
Each Scribe governs one memory domain and maintains a rewrite server
Disabling all five will fragment the Vulture Command Core and collapse global edit control
Scribes:
Quillshade the Pale (Lore Erasure)
Fractrix Domi (Cartographic Redactor)
Sybel of the Last Silence (Battlefield Rewriter)
The Whisper Loom (Name Binder)
Archivist Noct (Master of Final Memory)
Target 1: Quillshade the Pale – Lore Erasure
Location: Ruins of Highglint Academy
Once a citadel of knowledge, now hollowed by spells and ghost echoes, Highglint sat like a crown of rot in the northern cliffs.
Jag, Rain, and Verana entered through the shattered observatory.
Inside: floating tomes, twisted students frozen in eternal research loops, and whispers of forgotten names.
Quillshade hovered above the central atrium, a withered corpse wrapped in scholar's robes. His voice was layered, endless.
"You brought truth into my house? How rude."
Jag charged while Rain flared a truth-beacon.
Verana unleashed glyph-anchors that tore through false pages.
Quillshade cast "Inkstorm of Amnesia" – Jag resisted with Namebreaker
Verana used "Memory Pinpoint" – revealing the true core
Jag struck it down
[Quillshade Erased – Lore Lock Lifted from 12 Regions]
Bonus: Hidden history texts recovered, unlocking resistance lore upgrades
Target 2: Fractrix Domi – Cartographic Redactor
Location: Void Basin – Lost Cartograph Spire
They arrived in a broken canyon where maps failed. Paths looped. Landmarks reversed. Even the sky felt... incorrect.
Ashra led the infiltration, threading carefully.
Domi appeared not as a person, but as a swarm of red-ink ribbons—each one a living coordinate trying to re-chart the party's location mid-movement.
Verana deployed "Truth Grid" – fixed space to stable pattern
Rain anchored their positions with glyph-echoes
Jag struck down the largest ribbon with a severance arc
One by one, the swarm shrieked and disintegrated.
[Fractrix Domi Destroyed – Global Map Shift Stabilized]
Bonus: All resistance forces gain +1 Movement Tier on Campaign Map
Target 3: Sybel of the Last Silence – Battlefield Rewriter
Location: Blackblood Marsh – Former Battle Zone
Sybel didn't rewrite maps. She rewrote memories of war.
In Blackblood Marsh, where one of the greatest uprisings was believed to have "never occurred," Sybel weaved illusions of peace over the blood-soaked ground.
As Jag stepped forward, he saw himself, dying again and again, retreating, failing.
Ashra fell to her knees. "This… is a lie. But it feels real."
Rain shouted: "She's forging anti-memory!"
Verana threw a crystal shard.
[Memory Surge Activated – Truth Resonance Pulse]
Sybel staggered as her battlefield illusions unraveled
Jag struck her memory chain directly
She screamed — a shriek of a thousand rewritten names.
[Sybel Eliminated – True History of Blackblood Marsh Restored]
Bonus: Resistance morale in eastern sectors increased 40%
Target 4: The Whisper Loom – Name Binder
Location: Mirrorvale Crypt
The Whisper Loom was the most feared scribe — not because he erased memories, but because he rewrote names, severing people from their own identities.
When Jag entered Mirrorvale, his HUD flickered.
Warning: Identity Unstable
Rain's voice echoed strangely. Verana's form seemed flickering.
The Loom's voice drifted from all directions.
"Who are you without a name?"
Rain activated full Echo Herald Protocols. Ashra cut through threads of shadow that snaked toward them.
Jag's hand trembled as his name began to vanish from the system log.
But Rain struck the crypt sigil.
"JAG. Prince of Stormwatch. Oathbound. Remembered."
The name surged back into place.
Jag charged, slashing the Loom from all angles.
[Whisper Loom Deleted – Name Bindings Severed]
Bonus: Jag's passive "Echo of Names" radius doubled
Target 5: Archivist Noct – Master of Final Memory
Location: Vault of the Vanished
This was the deepest, darkest mission.
Archivist Noct held the final fail-safe — a master override key that could erase entire factions from history permanently.
They descended into a void-cave beneath the world, walls pulsing with stolen timelines.
Noct sat on a throne of null-light, quill poised mid-air.
"I remember everything. Including the end of Stormwatch."
Jag stepped forward.
Rain and Verana created a mirrored loop to delay the rewrite.
Noct cast Absolute Null Rewrite.
Jag countered with his new skill:
[Skill Unlocked: Oathbrand – Strike that Binds Memory in Flame]
He struck.
The flame seared through Noct's null-armor. The throne cracked.
And then... silence.
The void lifted.
[Archivist Noct Destroyed – Vulture Rewrite Authority Collapsed]
Final Result: Vulture System-wide Memory Editing Disabled
[System Update – Phase Two Complete: Burn the Quills]
All Five Scribes of Erasure Defeated
Global Consequences:
• Memory Control lifted in 68% of the continent
• Resistance Movements fully operational
• Stormwatch's status promoted to Central Node of World Memory
New Major Event Unlocked:
→ "The Vulture Reckoning" – The true masters of the Network awaken
Aftermath – Stormwatch, Midnight
Jag stood outside the tower, looking at the stars.
No illusions. No edits. No false echoes.
Ashra joined him. "We cut off the heads. Now they'll come with claws."
Jag nodded.
"Let them. This time, the world remembers."