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

left one of their own in the cage they had built to imprison the

it was precisely the creation of the law of imperfection that had given the gods the final push they needed

Forgotten God

the daemons, who had been born from his soul, living incarnations

had meant when she

by Sun God, her kingdom destroyed,

'Wait... no...'

forbid the knowledge of the Forgotten God from

there something deeper hiding behind that

'The law of imperfection...'

themselves. Therefore... the seal they had placed

it could

in a sense, was

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

happen if he

something clicked

not what would

an expression of utter

'What has happened.'

were seven gods, not

to be seven divine realms, not six, like Wind Flower had

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

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

the Void influencing that which had been created by

of the gods was exposed

god? The God of Corruption? Sunny trembled

broken

of existence

Forgotten God... has

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

existence from the world. They had forbidden the daemons from siring

worshiping her... and, through her, the god from whom she was

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

the gods. However, he was the first to shed their blood, as well as learn the secrets of his

had been the first to reveal the lie of

gritted his

'Damnation... damnation...'

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

happened during

had the gods and

of the Void been