The Boy Who Burned the Heavens

"Every incomplete battle leaves behind a king who never sat."

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🏰 [Scene: The Battlefield That Never Ended]

A new realm unfolded before Riven — not of blank pages or forgotten names…

But of unfinished chaos.

Here, broken swords hovered mid-air.

Frozen arrows suspended mid-flight.

Corpses wept without ever dying.

And banners half-raised bled stories never completed.

The air smelled of iron and hope left too long in the sun.

Riven stepped into the heart of it, Mirael and Lyara behind him.

> "What… is this place?" Mirael whispered.

> "It's war," Riven said.

"But paused. Like a sentence that ends in a comma…"

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📚 Lore Drop: The Throne of Unfinished Wars

> ⚔ Exists where divine conflict was left unresolved

👑 The throne remains empty until someone finishes what others abandoned

⚠ Whoever claims it absorbs all unresolved hatred, ambition, and vengeance from countless ages

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As they walked, whispers gathered around them.

> "I almost won…"

"He betrayed me before the final blow…"

"We never reached the gate…"

"My army turned back…"

And at the center of this endless standoff, stood a throne of rust and flame.

Cracked. Crooked.

Heavy with a crown suspended above it, held by invisible chains.

It spun slowly. Uneasy. Untouched.

Waiting.

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🩸 Challenge Appears – The War-Echos Rise

They didn't come as soldiers.

They came as moments.

A mother dying mid-protecting her son.

A blade that never found its target.

A commander left behind by his king.

A betrayal paused mid-swing.

They rose from the ground like ghosts made of memory — and they surrounded Riven.

> "To sit on that throne," one ghost rasped,

"You must finish every war we could not."

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⚔ Riven's Trial – Fights That Cannot Be Won

He was thrown into vision after vision:

🔹 Duel 1:

A warrior about to slay her corrupted brother.

But her hand shook, and she died.

Now, Riven took her place.

He finished the strike.

🔹 Duel 2:

An army that never breached a cursed city.

Riven stood at the front, flame burning.

He led them through, carrying their flag.

🔹 Duel 3:

A king who abandoned his troops.

Riven faced the mutiny, unarmed.

He chose to die with them, rewriting loyalty.

One after another, he closed the battles.

And each time, the crown lowered.

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👑 Final Test – His Own Unfinished War

Suddenly, he was alone.

The battlefield gone.

Only one thing remained:

> Prince Caelen Valtoris.

Smirking.

Alive.

Burning in cold blue flame.

> "Hello, little brother," Caelen said.

"Still trying to become king of nothing?"

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⚡ The Confrontation

> "You're not real," Riven growled.

> "Aren't I?" Caelen laughed.

"You never got closure with me.

You never beat me.

You never saved her.

So I'm the war you never won."

Riven's hands trembled.

His flame flickered.

He remembered:

Selene's betrayal.

The fire.

The lies Caelen whispered as Riven burned.

> "I don't need to win," Riven whispered.

"I just need to end it."

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🔥 The Final Strike

He stepped forward.

No grand move.

No roar.

Just one line:

> "I forgive you, Caelen."

The ghost froze.

The flame dimmed.

And the war… ended.

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👑 Crown Descends – A Throne Claimed

The iron-and-ember throne pulsed.

The sky cracked.

The crown — forged from every unfinished cry — landed gently upon Riven's head.

And every ghost… knelt.

> "All wars… finished," they whispered.

> "All endings… found."

And the battlefield… bloomed.

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🧠 New Power Gained: Crown of Closure

> 👑 Grants Riven the ability to end any conflict — internal or external — with a single sentence

⚔ Can resolve betrayals, rivalries, or even haunting wounds of the soul

⚠ Cost: One memory of a battle Riven fought will be lost forever

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