Eclipsia (The Devine Wound)

The Hollow Forge

Buried deep within the Shattered Peaks lies the Hollow Forge, an ancient sanctuary of divine craftsmanship that has stood abandoned for countless ages. Legend tells of a time when Hephaestus himself descended into these caverns alongside the greatest dwarven smiths of the First Age, drawn together by a desperate purpose: to forge tools capable of mending the very fabric of reality after the Sundering Wars tore holes through existence itself. Though their grand work ultimately failed, the colossal mechanisms they constructed continue their labors in perpetuity—massive divine hammers suspended by chains of starlight still descend and rise in rhythmic cadence, their strikes producing booms that reverberate through mountains and echo across distant kingdoms like the rage of imprisoned gods. The forge's walls are lined with countless half-finished creations, weapons of incomprehensible power that were never completed: blades designed to sever not mortal flesh but abstract concepts, armor woven from crystallized moments, and tools meant to reshape the laws of nature itself. At the heart of this forgotten workshop burns the Last Flame, a supernatural fire that defies all natural law—it has persisted undiminished long after every deity of flame and forge has perished from the world. Scholars and desperate seekers have journeyed to the Hollow Forge across generations, driven by whispered promises that this eternal fire possesses the power to remake anything from the ashes of ruin: a shattered weapon, a broken spirit, or even the threads of destiny itself.