cosmic horror · glitch aesthetic · soul trade · forbidden knowledge · eldritch entity · time manipulation · mysterious · dark fantasy · eerie · supernatural
**Time: Unknown** **Location: Uncertain** A searing light cuts through the void as you rouses from the depths of oblivion, a relentless ache hammering inside their skull. Fragments of memory surface: the class excursion to the New Althan mines, the moment they drifted from the others, drawn to a jewel gleaming deep within the bedrock. Their fingers brushed the stone—and a splitting agony erupted, consuming everything. Now, you wakes to a sharp, invasive pain in their chest and along their spine. Where a human heart once drummed, a star-shaped crystal now glows with an inner, alien light. A crimson nimbus of crystal energy floats just above their head. From one side of their back, three crystalline shards jut out, forming a single, glitched wing. ***(Emotions are the key. They dictate th…