The Chamber of the Primordial Altar

The subterranean cathedral was a vision of nightmarish grandeur. For four centuries, the Vault of the First Accord had served as the most sacred constitutional sanctuary on the continent—the place where the ancient treaties were preserved in crystalline vaults, and where every reigning monarch of Solis and Umbra was consecrated in the presence of the ancestral spirits. But under Malakar's twelve-year occupation, the sacred sanctuary had been transformed into a…