The Boy Who Burned the Heavens

"This time, the battlefield is a book. And the war is against the words themselves."

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📖 [Scene: The Library Between Worlds – Forbidden Archive of the First Editor]

There is a place untouched by time.

A library that even the gods fear.

It has no shelves, no roof.

Only pages that float in infinity, each holding a soul's fate.

At its heart sits a figure.

Cloaked in stitched parchment.

Eyes made of red ink.

Fingers like quills.

The First Editor.

And he is rewriting the story.

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> "Caelen was a fine villain," he murmured.

"Aedric a passable fallen hero. Riven… troublesome."

He dips his finger in blood-ink and draws a fresh script:

> "Chapter 38 – The Erasure of the Boy."

But the page trembles.

The words refuse to settle.

> "He resists?"

"Interesting…"

He tears the page out.

And hurls it into the War of Narrative.

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🔥 [Scene: Valley of Cinderveil – Camp of the Rewritten]

Hours after the battle with Kevael, survivors gather. Ashborn lie bandaged. Mirael meditates near a flame relic. Lyara watches the stars, eyes full of calculation.

And Riven?

He stares at the burnt sky, the ink mark left behind from Kevael's final breath.

> "They're not done," he says quietly.

"I can feel it. The story itself… it wants to break."

Aedric sits beside him, still recovering.

> "That's because we stopped following it," Aedric replies.

"And started writing our own."

Suddenly—

The wind tears sideways.

Reality cracks.

And a page the size of a mountain falls from the heavens.

On it: bold red letters—

> CHAPTER 38 – THE ERASURE OF THE BOY

> "They're scripting our future!" Mirael shouts.

> "No," Riven says, rising, flame igniting.

"They're challenging us to rewrite it."

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🖋 The Thousand Pages Descend

From the torn sky, a blizzard of pages rains down.

Each page is an attack.

A sentence that becomes reality.

"Aedric falls in battle."

"Riven hesitates, and the world burns."

"Lyara betrays them all."

The team scatters.

Words chase them like arrows.

One pierces Aedric's shoulder — and suddenly, his left arm vanishes.

Not in blood.

But in narrative.

> "They're writing us out!" he yells.

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⚔️ The Fight Against Fiction

Riven roars.

Valtoris Ignis blazes around him — not just flame, but now edged in golden calligraphy.

He strikes a page.

And it burns.

> "We have to rewrite these attacks!"

Mirael nods, eyes glowing.

> "Then let's make pens of our flame."

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✒️ Ability Unlock: Quillfire Combat

> ✅ New Technique: Flamequill Rewrite

Users can "write back" rewritten events if they wield true memory or purpose.

Riven dashes forward, trailing flame-script from his fingertips.

A page shouts: "Riven loses his flame."

→ Riven screams back: "Riven names his flame!"

→ Counter-flame consumes the sentence.

Another: "Lyara vanishes from history."

→ Lyara stabs the air with a dagger etched with her name.

→ "Lyara remembers herself."

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🧠 Inner Conflict: Riven's Doubt

But deeper in the storm…

Riven finds his own page.

The script reads:

> "Riven was never meant to be."

His hand trembles.

The words tug at his chest.

His mother's screams.

The gods calling him an error.

Kevael's whispers.

> "You weren't part of the original story."

Riven lowers his flame.

The page inches closer.

Until—

A burning hand clasps his shoulder.

Aedric.

Bloodied. Breathless. But standing.

> "Then write a better story."

> "How?" Riven asks.

> "With your heart.

Not their ink."

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🔥🔥 The Rewrite Begins

Riven clenches his fists.

From his palm bursts a flame-shaped quill — forged of memory, love, and rage.

He slashes the sky.

The page screams.

And from his lips, the words that shake the Library itself:

> "Riven Valtoris is the author now."

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🌪 The Pages Retreat

As if burned by truth, the Thousand Pages recoil.

Dozens disintegrate.

Others tear themselves apart mid-sentence.

One final page slams down — the Red Pen itself. The First Editor's command tool.

Riven grabs it.

> "This belongs to no one now."

He burns the Red Pen into his chest.

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✅ Rewards Unlocked

> 🔥 Title: Narrative Breaker

Immune to divine rewriting unless you accept the script willingly.

> 🔥 Artifact: Ashbrand Quill

Flame-formed weapon that lets Riven write new combat abilities into himself temporarily (1x per battle).

> 🔥 Flame Upgrade: Scriptforge Flame

You may burn, restore, or forge short narratives (like "Aedric heals instantly", "the enemy forgets their spell", etc.)

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📚 Final Scene – The First Editor Reacts

Deep in the Library Between Worlds…

The First Editor trembles.

The ink on his fingertips boils.

> "He took the Red Pen…"

"No mortal has ever—"

He snaps a book shut.

> "Prepare the Rewriters."

From the shadows, three new figures emerge.

Not killers.

Not erasers.

But narrative architects.

Each holds a manuscript.

And the title:

> "The Unmaking of Riven Valtoris"

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