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Standing in the cold, silent ruins, Elias held the pulsing obsidian sphere. He looked at his pale, trembling hands, then back into the violet depths where the green leaves danced.

He cleared the dust to reveal a sphere of obsidian. It was cold—impossibly cold—and it felt as though it were pulling the heat from his very fingertips. But as he touched it, the sphere began to pulse. It didn't glow with the amber warmth of the mining crystals. Instead, it emitted a violet, shimmering radiance that seemed to cast "darker" shadows than the surrounding gloom. This was "Dark Light." Dark Light

He realized the Dark Light wasn't just showing him a different world; it was swapping his reality for another. To bring the "Light" back to the Gray, he would have to give up everything that made him a part of it. Standing in the cold, silent ruins, Elias held

Elias was a scavenger, a "Lamp-Lighter" who risked the suffocating outer wastes to find forgotten caches of old-world illumination. One evening, while digging through the ruins of a subterranean observatory, his shovel struck something that didn't feel like stone or lead. It was cold—impossibly cold—and it felt as though