Khaeren could not endure the truth that humanity's cruelty had been the blade that struck Mirath down in the mortal realm.
It was that same cruelty that shattered their divinity, leaving both sisters unable to ascend back to the heavens as complete Goddesses. Mirath's body had perished, and her soul, fractured and tainted by mortal suffering, was deemed unfit to return whole.
Khaeren, though still alive, was no less broken with her godhood diminished by grief and fury alike.
Overwhelmed by loss and unwilling to accept a judgment she believed unjust, Khaeren turned her anguish outward.
What had begun as mourning hardened into condemnation, and from that condemnation she wove a merciless curse. It was not cast in a single moment of wrath, but shaped carefully, fueled by every scream she had heard in the mortal realm and every drop of Mirath's blood spilled by human hands.
And, the curse did not end with Mirath's death.
