Location: Vor'anthel — Grand Hall
Date/Time: 10 Emberrise, 9939 AZI
Realm: Demon Realm
The Grand Hall of Vor'anthel had been built for billions.
That was the thing that struck Ren every time he entered it — not the architecture, not the soaring columns of pre-war obsidian veined with essence-light that stretched so high the ceiling disappeared into shadow, not the carved histories inlaid along the walls in scripts so old that even Solvren struggled with the grammar. It was the scale. The sheer, impossible vastness of a space designed for a civilization that had numbered in the tens of billions, now holding a fraction of a fraction of what it had been meant for.
Eight hundred thousand mixed-bloods filled the hall's lower tiers.
They looked like nothing.
