Where the prophecy of the Moonlit Child meets the legend of the Silent High Witch
As preserved in the deepest vaults of the
Kenttra Grimoire, written on serpent-hide veined with silver.
I. The Foretelling Before the First Eclipse
Long before Bramwell Zuwa drew his first mortal breath,
the heavens whispered to one soul alone.
She was called the Silent High Witch - last speaker of the Old Tongue and the first to unlearn sound.
It was she who heard the pulse of unborn light within the void, and she who wrote upon black parchment:
"From the union of the Twin Serpents shall rise a child whose voice will awaken my silence."
Her quill did not scratch ink but starlight;
her eyes were blind yet beheld the shape of destiny.
In her solitude she bound her life to the moon, becoming its shadowed heart,
that she might feel when the Child would come.
II. The Birth Beneath Her Silence
When Lady Zakia bore Bramwell under the eclipse,
the Silent High Witch stood unseen among the gathered spirits.
She wove a spell of quiet around the cradle,
lest the cries of the newborn split the veils too soon.
The silence became his first lullaby -
and her last utterance.
From that moment, her tongue turned to silver ash,
her voice forever sealed within the child's breath.
Thus the Moonlit Child and the High Witch were bound:
he, the word she could no longer speak;
she, the silence that would one day temper his light.
III. The Watch of the Hidden Centuries
Through his mortal life she lingered in unseen forms -
mist across the river, smoke curling from temple lamps,
a whisper behind each choice he made.
Every spell of restraint, every stillness before decision,
was her guiding hand.
The Choir called it Conscience,
but the Grimoire names it The High Witch's Guard.
For though Bramwell carried the blood of gods, it was her silence that kept him human.
IV. The Return to the Divine Realm
When thirty years had turned and the Moonlit Child ascended.
His first step upon the Bridge awakened her tomb.
The Silent High Witch rose from her stasis, her body formed of candle smoke and lunar dust.
She followed his accent not as shadow,
but as memory returning to its source.
In the Divine Realm she confronted him beneath the twin moons,
her silence meeting his voice.
He spoke the words that broke her vow:
"Your quiet made me whole."
And in that utterance, her voice returned - not as speech, but as a second moonlight,
a radiance that filled the void between Zakia and Malachai's spheres.
It was her light that sealed the Bridge, and her breath that steadied the trembling heavens.
V. The Eternal Covenant
When the Serpent Circle formed and the heavens began to breathe,
Bramwell Zuwa took his place as its heart,
and beside him, unseen, the Silent High Witch watched.
She became the Eternal Silence -
guardian of equilibrium,
listener of prayers unspoken,
keeper of the moon's hidden half.
Each time the Circle turns and moonlight falls soft upon water,
a trace of her remains:
the hush before revelation,
the calm before transformation.
And when the Choir sings their single verse -
"All that falls, circles; all that circles, rises" -
it is said that her whisper completes it, unheard but ever present.
"And in the rising, let silence guide the light."
The World of 'The Inheritance' Universe 
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