Angel's Fall, Volume I

Prologue: Smoke and Dust

Angel's Fall
The Curse of the Blind and the Prophecy of the Unseen

Prologue

When everything falls on your shoulders, you gain a sort of heightened sense of yourself, as if you were actually bigger then everyone else, bigger then the world, as if you could do anything, everything you wanted or desired or was expected of you. You learn to pace your heart into doing everything at the right time, in the right place. But that's only the second phase of it and, like in most other things in life, you can only get to the second phase of anything by getting through the first phase of whatever it is. "And what's that?", you may ask. The first phase is either denial or cowardice for most people. But for me, it was enlightenment!

After the Guardian Stone exploded, scything away thousands of lives in the wake of the energy liberated in the event, I awoke in a world blinded in light, a wasteland of raw magical essence cackling and sparkling everywhere I looked, a barren plain of molten rock, metal and bones. The flesh had sizzled away in the first moments of the apocalypse. I was quite stunned to remember that I was right in the epicenter of the whole disaster, watching the First Dragon Lord, my Lord, wrestle the Fourth and the Fifth Dragon Lords to reach the Guardian Stone and absorb the power that it had kept silent for several millenia. They really were no match for his determination and he quickly reached his objective, crashing into the Stone and making the world tremble. And then, with obsidian claws, he shattered the artifact, much to the dismay of the other dragons in Serenity's Temple and across the world.

I was born anew, as if a new life had been given to me. A part of the world had been vaporized and I could only blink in amazement at the new power that coursed through my veins, in the back of my mind and in the deepest depths of my soul. Something that lurked in the threshold of my conscience, that whispered things through the silence that filled my ears, things that made my hair stand up.

This was the beginning of a new era, the reset of a world changed completely in a blink of an eye.

I am Tyros and this is my story, etched in the conscience of the world for those who can master the skill to read it.