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,

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

other way around, and it was precisely the creation

Forgotten

born from his soul, living incarnations of that

had meant when she spoke to

been imprisoned by Sun God, her kingdom destroyed,

'Wait... no...'

forbid the knowledge of

there something deeper

'The law of imperfection...'

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

it could

sense,

been sealed in the void for so long, slumbering, could

would happen if he

clicked in Sunny's

not what would

utter terror appearing

'What has happened.'

seven gods, not

therefore, there had to be seven divine realms, not six, like

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

which was devouring all the rest and spreading

the Void influencing that which had

if one of the gods was

a corrupted god? The God of Corruption? Sunny trembled

already broken

he was still asleep. And all of existence was in

has succumbed to

the day he was released would have brought doom to the world created by the gods. So, they had to have done everything in their power to prevent him from

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

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

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

the gods. However, he was the first to shed their

the lie of the gods and learn the truth

gritted his teeth, feeling

'Damnation... damnation...'

of the Dream Realm was revealed in front of him.

happened during the

the gods

of the