The World of 'The Inheritance' Universe

The Prophecies of the Serpent Moon

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(Recorded in dreamlight by the Silent High Witch, whose breath is half prayer, half poison)

“When the moon coils thrice upon itself, the last flame shall be born of shadow.”

Verse I – The First Coil: The Return of Memory

  1. When the moons coils once upon itself, the world shall dream of its own birth.
  2. The rivers will hum in forgotten tongues, and the towns shall speak through their dust.
  3. The dead shall walk, not in body but in echo, to remind the living of what was promised.
  4. In Aisley, a child will weave a tapestry of smoke, and within it the first god shall awaken.
  5. Her loom will burn, but her song will not – for light remembers its beginning.
"When memory returns, mercy follows close
behind."

Verse II – The Second Coil: The Eclipse of Faith

  1. When the Serpent-Moon coils twice, day and night shall fold into one endless dusk.
  2. The faithful shall wander without voice, their prayers devoured by mirrors.
  3. Temples will sink beneath their own shadows, and the wells of Baylee will whisper only lies.
  4. In Divinity, perfume will turn to dust, and dreams will rot beneath the eyelids of the pious.
  5. From Huetown’s silence shall rise a single sound 0- the breath of a god remembering its sin.
"When faith falters, truth hides behind the 
serpent's tongue."

Verse III – The Third Coil: The Awakening of Witchblood

  1. In the hour of twilight between centuries, the blood of gods shall boil in mortal veins.
  2. Children born under no star will bear the mark of scales upon their hearts.
  3. They shall speak the Nine Runes without tongue, and the Veil will tremble at their remembering.
  4. Their leader will come from Kenttra, born of smoke and salt, carrying both curse and covenant.
  5. She shall be known by no name – for the Serpent keeps her hidden, even from herself.
"The Witchblood shall rise not to rule, but to
remember."

Verse IV – The Fourth Coil: The Breaking of the Veils

  1. When the Witchblood speaks as one, the Seven Veils will tear like fabric before dawn.
  2. The gods shall return, not as saviors, but as shadows seeking the warmth of their names.
  3. Mountains will breathe, seas will burn, and time will bleed backward through its own spine.
  4. The serpent will stretch from sky to grave, swallowing the horizon whole.
  5. Its body will become the bridge between what was and what must be.
"When the Veils break, the world will
remember what silence meant."

Verse V – The Fifth Coil: The Inheritance of Fire

  1. The Inheritance will stand before the empty throne – twenty and six in number, though none pure.
  2. Each will carry a relic of their House, drawn fro, ruin and memory.
  3. The Oracle Deck will burn with unspoken truths, and the Kenttra Tome shall bleed open.
  4. The High Witch’s own hand will tremble – for she will see her reflection among them.
  5. The serpent will uncoil, hissing a single word that no ear survives to repeat.
"The end will come as inheritance, not as
punishment."

Verse VI – The Sixth Coil: The False Dawn

  1. From Freya’s shattered choirs shall rise a melody too sweet for the living.
  2. The dead will mistake it for sunrise, and walk once more into the arms of mourning.
  3. The cities of glass – Xavier and Zakia – will fracture under the weight of mourning.
  4. Each star will blink once, like an eye tired of seeing.
  5. The serpent’s skin will split, revealing what even gods feared to create; the unlight.
"Beware the dawn that asks for blood to
rise."

Verse VII – The Seventh Coil: The Serpent’s Rebirth

  1. When all towns fall silent, when no prayers rise nor fall, the Serpent-Moon will shed its final skin.
  2. From within it will crawl the newborn god – neither holy nor profane, but whole.
  3. Its eyes shall be human, its voice the echo of all that ever lived.
  4. It shall name the High Witch its first daughter and its last witness.
  5. Together they will write the new alphabet if creation upon the ruins of time.
  6. The serpent will close its circle, swallowing its own tail, and the world will begin again.
"The end is only the beginning pronounced
in reversed."

Verse VIII – The Prophecy of the Inheritors

  1. And they shall come, the two who carry the scent of dust and lightning – Bramwell, heir to the forgotten flame.
  2. Through him the towns shall stir, their relics remembering their purpose.
  3. He will not seek to rule, but remember what gods could not – the tenderness of mortality.
  4. The High Witch will watch unseen, heir voice written and be asked not what they believe, but what they remember.
"The world will be saved not by faith, but by
recollection."

Verse IX – The Final Whisper

  1. I have written these prophecies in blood and silence.
  2. If you read them, know what I am gone – not dead, but dissolved into the ink that binds this tome.
  3. My name was once written among the gods, but I have forgotten which letter I was.
  4. The serpent sleeps now, but its dream is endless, and you are within it.
  5. Close this book softly, child of Inheritance – for every page turns beneath your heartbeat.
"When the reader breathes, the world
remembers."

Here prophecy becomes mirror. The serpent’s dream coils once more around the mortal world, and all that was written waits for its echo to return.

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