The Boy Who Burned the Heavens

"Before the gods feared him, he feared himself."

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🔥 [Scene: The Hollow Flame – A Realm Between Souls]

Riven had been stabilized.

His body no longer flickered.

His soul no longer cried out.

But his flame still lacked a name.

And without that name, he couldn't wield it.

To awaken its true power, father and son had to enter the Trial of Meaning — a sacred rite passed down by flameborn bloodlines and locked behind the soul's final gate.

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🧭 The Flame Gate

Aedric and Riven stood before an ancient brazier in the Hollow Flame.

It burned not with fire, but with questions.

Three doorways appeared — each leading to a part of themselves they tried to bury.

> "Once we enter," Aedric said, "we don't fight with flame."

> "Then how?" Riven asked.

> "With truth."

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🚪 Door One: Aedric's Trial – The Father Who Failed

Aedric stepped into a vision of the past.

He stood in the courtroom of gods once again — the moment of his sentencing.

But this time, the gods didn't speak.

He did.

> "You feared what I could become," Aedric said.

"So you killed what I was becoming."

The vision turned into a mirror — reflecting himself, chained, broken, filled with rage.

> "You are fire, nothing more," the mirror whispered.

He stared back.

> "No. I am the forge."

And with that, he shattered the mirror.

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🚪 Door Two: Riven's Trial – The Son Who Shouldn't Exist

Riven entered a playground of shadows.

Every child around him wore his face — but warped.

They mocked him.

"You're a mistake."

"A glitch in time."

"A name that never belonged."

He fell to his knees.

But one version of him — smaller, quieter — stepped forward.

> "We're all real," the small one said.

"Because we remember."

Riven hugged the younger self.

And flame bloomed around them.

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🚪 Door Three: The Flame's Trial – Purpose

Now united, father and son stepped through the third door — together.

Here, they saw not enemies…

…but every life they had burned.

Every soldier. Every civilian. Every soul forgotten in their war.

A voice boomed:

> "What gives you the right to burn?!"

Aedric stepped forward.

> "We don't burn to conquer."

Riven stood beside him.

> "We burn to protect what was almost erased."

The flames parted.

And from the center, a sword emerged — forged of flame and name.

Together, they touched it.

And the Hollow Flame whispered its answer.

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🗡 The Flame is Named

> ✅ New Flame Title: "Valtoris Ignis" – The Flame That Remembers

A rare bloodflame that cannot be copied, corrupted, or erased. Strength increases when defending memory, innocence, or legacy.

> ✅ Ultimate Skill Unlocked: Echoflame Resonance

Father and son combine flames into a burst that replays a chosen memory as a battlefield projection — demoralizing enemies, empowering allies.

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🛡 Titles Earned

Aedric: The Flamefather

Riven: The Named Spark

Both: The Valtoris Line Reforged

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👁 Final Scene – Pantheon Divided

The gods watched in silence.

Some turned away in fear.

Others began to remember names they had once erased.

But the God of War stood.

> "Enough watching. The boy is now a flame not just reborn… but named."

> "That makes him dangerous."

He pointed to the map of realms.

> "Unleash the Seven Burners. End them before their memory burns the heavens clean."

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