Known among the Hidden Orders as "The Return Through Veiled Heavens".
Inscribed beneath the sealed vellum of Lady Zakia's lunar altar.
"Thirty cycles of the moon's sorrow shall pass,
and the Child once whispered in cradle-light shall return,
not as flesh, but as convergence -
a union of spirit, storm, and divinity undone.
The veil between realms shall thin like breath upon glass,
and from the fractures of mortal time he shall emerge -
clothed in the dust of his forebears, crowned in duskfire.
His voice shall be the song that unravels the quiet heavens,
his tears the rainfall of remembrance.
The divine realm, long sealed by the hands of the First Serpents,
shall tremble as he ascends its forgotten stair.
For even the Thrones and Watchers will know his scent -
the scent of moonlight split upon sanctified stone.
There he shall confront the Echoed Ones, those ancient divinities who wept
themselves hollow in their own worship.
They will offer him dominion - the White Crown of Perpetual Stillness.
But should he accept, the mortal world shall drown in silence.
Yet if he refuses, turning his gaze instead to the sleeping fields below,
he shall ignite the Veins of Heaven, and the Serpent's Gate will flare anew.
Then shall Lady Zakia descend in radiance, and Lord Malachai rise in shadow,
their essences bound in the body of their son, reborn through both love and lament.
Through him, the forgotten words shall be spoken:
'I am not god, nor ghost - but bridge'.
And the realms shall merge for one brief hour,
Long enough for light to remember darkness, and darkness to forgive its maker.
Thus ends the Era of Veiled Stars,
and begins the Hour of Inheritance."
The World of 'The Inheritance' Universe 
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