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,

of their own in the cage they had built to imprison the Void, and, full of shame, erased his existence from

gone the other way around, and it was precisely the creation

making the Forgotten

who had been born from his soul, living incarnations of that

meant when she

been imprisoned by Sun God, her kingdom destroyed,

'Wait... no...'

what had made the gods forbid the knowledge

deeper hiding behind that colossal

'The law of imperfection...'

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

meant that it could

a sense, was their

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

happen if

clicked in Sunny's

what

paled, an expression of utter terror appearing on

'What has happened.'

seven gods, not

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

world was the sixth, most likely belonging to War God... While the Dream Realm was the seventh, belonging to the Forgotten

all the rest and spreading Corruption to

of the Void influencing that which had been created by the

of the gods was exposed to the Void for

there be a corrupted god? The God of Corruption?

had already broken free of his

he was still asleep. And all of existence

Forgotten God... has succumbed to

the world created by the gods. So, they had to have done everything in their power to prevent him from growing stronger, restless,

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

worshiping her... and, through her, the god from

aware of their origin at the time. After all, the description of the Mantle of the Underworld stated

first to lead his army against the gods. However, he was the

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

gritted his teeth,

'Damnation... damnation...'

revealed in front of him. Except for the

had happened during the Doom

had the gods

the seal of the Void been