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.'

gods... were liars,

they had built to imprison the Void, and, full of shame, erased his existence

maybe it had gone the other way around, and it was precisely the creation of the law of imperfection

Forgotten God their

the daemons, who had been born from his soul,

meant when she spoke to

Sun God, her kingdom destroyed, after mortals

'Wait... no...'

had made the gods forbid the knowledge of the Forgotten God

was there something deeper hiding behind that

'The law of imperfection...'

including the gods themselves. Therefore... the seal they had placed on the Void

meant that it could be

in a sense, was their

Forgotten God, who had been sealed in the void for so long, slumbering, could

would happen

clicked

not what

expression of utter

'What has happened.'

seven

realms, not six, like

belonging to War God... While the Dream

the rest and spreading

was the result of the Void influencing

would happen if one of the gods was

a corrupted god? The God of

broken free

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

Forgotten God... has succumbed

the world created by the gods. So, they had to have done everything in

erased all mentions of his existence from the world. They had forbidden the daemons from siring offspring, thus preventing

they had destroyed Hope's kingdom when people started worshiping her... and, through her,

really cruel punishment, considering that daemons had not even been aware of their origin at the time. After all, the description of the Mantle of the Underworld stated it clearly

was the first to shed their blood, as well as

lie of the gods and learn

his

'Damnation... damnation...'

of the Dream Realm was revealed in front of him. Except for the very end of

happened during the Doom

gods and

of the Void