Shadow Slave

As it turned out... the daemons had not appeared out of nowhere, nor had they created themselves.

Instead, they were born from the seven pieces of a god whose very existence had been erased from the world, concealed, and forbidden from being mentioned. The seventh god...

The Forgotten God.

Who had been Dream God, once.

So, it was not that the origin of the daemons was unknown. It was just that their very existence was forbidden, and since no one was allowed to remember the Forgotten God, it seemed as if they had appeared from nowhere.

Sunny shivered, and then looked ahead.

There, the last cluster of light was burning under the surface of the dark lake.

He walked forward, his legs numb.

Soon, he reached the light and looked down, seeing runes once again. Taking slow steps, he studied them.

The message left behind by Ariel, the Demon of Dread, read:

[Here is the truth I leave behind

That reveals the lie of the gods

The Forgotten One slumbers

In the Void

Eternal, everchanging

Dreaming of escape

The gods, who were flawless

Learned shame

And were flawless no more

I am a child of their transgression

And thus, their Flaw]

Sunny trembled.

'The gods... were flawless no more...'

Suddenly, he remembered the last thing Noctis had said to him, in the depths of the Second Nightmare, just before Hope broke free of her chains. He remembered the weight of the four words the whimsical sorcerer had whispered:

'Never trust the gods.'

were liars,

one of their own in the cage they had built to imprison the Void, and, full of shame,

of imperfection had been born? Or maybe it had gone the other way around, and it was

Forgotten God their

been born from his soul, living incarnations of

meant when she spoke

imprisoned by Sun God, her kingdom

'Wait... no...'

had made the gods forbid the knowledge of the

was there something deeper hiding behind that colossal

'The law of imperfection...'

gods themselves. Therefore... the seal they had placed on the Void had to be imperfect,

meant that it could

sense, was

therefore, the Forgotten God, who had been sealed in the void

happen if he

clicked in

not what

an expression of utter terror appearing

'What has happened.'

seven

realms, not six,

God... While the Dream Realm was the seventh, belonging to

Realm, which was devouring all the rest and spreading Corruption to all of existence through the blooming Seeds

was the result of the Void influencing that which had been

gods was exposed

god? The God

god... had already broken free of his

still asleep. And all of existence was in the throes of

God... has succumbed to

doom to the world created by the gods. So, they had to have done everything in their power to prevent

the daemons from siring offspring, thus preventing the propagation the

when people started worshiping her... and,

considering that daemons had not even been aware of their origin at the time. After all, the description

However, he was the first to

had been the first to reveal the lie of the gods and learn

gritted his teeth, feeling

'Damnation... damnation...'

Dream Realm was revealed in front of him. Except for

happened during

had the gods and

the seal of