Location: Thornhaven Village / Training Clearing
Date/Time: 20 Ashwhisper, 9938 AZI
Realm: Mid Realm
The forests burned.
Not with wildfire — with Radiance essence, concentrated and directed, pouring from the hands of hunters who moved through the primordial forests in coordinated sweeps. Ancient ironbarks that had stood for millennia exploded into columns of white flame. The canopy collapsed inward, driving everything beneath it into the open — animals, people, families that had lived under those branches for generations.
The settlements fell one by one.
Thornhaven was first. Lyria watched the walls that Kael'vor had built — the beautiful stone reinforced with Drazhen's metalwork — shatter under a concentrated barrage from eight Peak Apexblight shadow guard operatives. The wardstones cracked. The defensive formations collapsed. The entire assault took eleven minutes.
Eleven minutes to end a community that had survived for decades in no-man's-land.
