The news spread across Runiya like wildfire in drought-stricken grass. Messengers rode day and night, magical communications flashed between towers, and within a week, there wasn't a corner of the continent where people weren't discussing the same impossible event—Northwatch was gone. The Eternal Rift, that wound in reality that had endured for over a century, had vanished completely.
In taverns and royal courts alike, the same questions circulated. What power could possibly erase a city and seal an Eternal Rift? What did it mean for the continent's stability? And perhaps most urgently—would other rifts follow suit, or was this a singular event?
