Collected from diaries, rumors, and surviving scrolls. Dates and authors are often unknown.
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Account A – The Soldier's Note:
"We saw him at the edge of the village. One moment, he was a boy, pale and trembling. The next… his eyes burned. The dead fell before him, screaming, and yet he did not strike them with steel. They… fell to nothing. It was as if he ate them whole. We ran, but some stayed, too afraid to look away. We whispered his name, but none dared say it aloud."
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Account B – Tavern Whisper:
"Some say the boy can swallow souls as if they were air. They call him Fractured, though none have lived to see him twice. Others claim he is a curse sent by Vael to punish mankind. My father's brother met him once… said the boy's eyes held the dead inside, and they whispered secrets no man should hear."
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Account C – Priest's Fragment:
"I saw one who could touch life and death both. The soul recoiled at his hand, yet yielded. He took it, and with it, strength beyond comprehension. Such power, yet each step he takes strips him of the warmth of humanity. The texts speak of such beings in whispers — those who are neither living nor dead, yet who walk among men. They are called Fractured."
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Account D – Scholar's Observation:
"The Fractured do not choose to be monsters, nor do they choose to be saviors. They are born of circumstance, of hunger, of the inevitability of survival. Every soul they consume is both weapon and curse. It is written: to touch one is to change one forever. They are the line between man and abyss."
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Account E – Survivor's Fragment:
"He saved my village once. Or so I thought. We woke the next morning and found half the men missing, their eyes hollow. He did not speak. He did not cry. He merely walked away, leaving us wondering… was he our savior, or the first demon we ever knew?"
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The Fractured are legends whispered in fear and awe. To see one is to glimpse the delicate balance between salvation and destruction, and to hear their story is to wonder whether humanity has been given hope… or a herald of its undoing.