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❄️ Scene: Northern Crossroad – Frostreach Region

FX: Wind whispers through barren trees. Snow falls like ash. No animal cries. No birds fly. 🌨️🌫️

[Visual: Riven and Kaelith walk cautiously toward a small village nestled at the foot of the mountains. The path is clean. Untouched. Too clean.]

Riven (thinking):

"Snow should bury footsteps in hours."

"But these… are still fresh."

[Kaelith crouches, examining the trail.]

[Kaelith]:

"No signs of struggle. No blood. No drag marks."

[Riven (quietly)]:

"Which means they didn't run."

🏘️ Scene: Frostreach Village – Main Road

[Visual: Dozens of small homes. Fires still burn gently in stoves. Doors are slightly ajar. Food on tables. Everything… frozen in time.]

[FX: Their boots crunch through ice. That's the only sound.]

[Riven pushes open a door. Inside: a family of four sits at a table. Not dead. Not rotting. Just… still.]

Riven (breathless):

"No pulse. No heat. But no decay either."

[Kaelith, jaw tight]:

"It's like someone pressed pause on their lives."

[She walks closer to one of the villagers — a child. Eyes open, unmoving. A single tear frozen on the cheek.]

[Riven kneels. Places her hand near the heart.]

[FX: Her soulblade glows faintly.]

She hears it — not a heartbeat, but a whisper. So faint, it almost slips past thought.

"He's listening."

⚫ Scene: Village Shrine – Back Courtyard

[They follow blackened vines creeping under snow — leading to the shrine.]

The roots emerge from the earth like veins of obsidian. Twisting. Ancient. Pulsing.

[Kaelith, grim]:

"Mordaviel."

[Riven]:

"He didn't burn them. He claimed them."

[She steps forward. The roots recoil — not from fear. From recognition.]

[FX: A low hum vibrates through the snow. A sigil appears on the shrine wall — a black flame inside a circle.]

Riven (thinking):

"It's not conquest. It's memory."

"He's binding souls to stillness… so they can't forget him."

🔥 Scene: Confrontation Within – Soulflash

[Visual: Riven touches the shrine symbol — and in an instant, her vision floods white.]

[She stands inside a cold mental landscape. A mirror of the village, but washed in grayscale.]

Floating in the center: Mordaviel's Wraith, born from the scout he touched earlier.

[Wraith — voice soft, broken]:

"You carry his opposite. The spark that ruins silence."

[Riven]:

"He has no right to these people."

[Wraith]:

"He made no claim. They offered nothing. So he took only their remembrance."

[Riven draws her blade inside the vision. It burns.]

[Wraith]:

"Flameborn. He remembers you. And when you come to him… he will not bind. He will choose."

[FX: Vision shatters — Riven returns to reality, hand shaking.]

🌫️ Scene: Village Exit

[Kaelith]:

"What did you see?"

[Riven (quietly)]:

"A promise. Or a threat."

[Kaelith]:

"You think he knows where we are?"

[Riven looks back at the frozen village.]

[Riven]:

"He doesn't need to."

"He left this for me to find."

[Final Visual: As they walk away, the roots slowly retreat beneath the snow — not vanishing. Just… waiting.]

⚔️ TO BE CONTINUED…