The Deserter - Ash, an Ironfolk defector, confirms from the inside what the Vael only guessed — and answers how the straight-line people know what the Rings are. The Pact is tested on the enemy.

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ACT II — THE GATHERING the Vael are not the last

2. Strangers in the Reeds

First contact with the Marsh Vael. Sedge unmasked; two peoples who each believed themselves alone. They fight the Ironfolk together — then Bracken sees the bone knife at Rook's belt and names the theft.

3. Old Wounds

To the Rings, where the Vael were one. The forest took the First — the one who remembered the sky whole — and it cost everyone the sky. Wren asks the stones for a bond and gets nothing. The Pact is sworn: we ask. no one takes anyone.

4. The Sky Cage

Too late for the mountain — the Ironfolk already hold the one who remembers the sky. The Sky Clan is broken or besieged; Kestrel must be asked, not recruited. A rescue, not a proving.

5. The Deserter

Ash, an Ironfolk defector, confirms from the inside what the Vael only guessed — and answers how the straight-line people know what the Rings are. The Pact is tested on the enemy.

6. The Straight Scar

Following the geometric cut back to its source. The first real look at Iron Warden Vane and the machine he commands.

7. The Long Winter

The gathered tribes starve and doubt Rook. Cinder falls gravely ill. His leadership fractures — and a chief who won't lie has nothing comforting to say.

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The Deserter - Ash, an Ironfolk defector, confirms from the inside what the Vael only guessed — and answers how the straight-line people know what the Rings are. The Pact is tested on the enemy.

Old Wounds - To the Rings, where the Vael were one. The forest took the First — the one who remembered the sky whole — and it cost everyone the sky. Wren asks the stones for a bond and gets nothing. The Pact is sworn: we ask. no one takes anyone.

Old Wounds - To the Rings, where the Vael were one. The forest took the First — the one who remembered the sky whole — and it cost everyone the sky. Wren asks the stones for a bond and gets nothing. The Pact is sworn: we ask. no one takes anyone.

The Fallen Ring — the reveal: the ancestors did not rise from the forest but fell from the Riven Sky.

The Fallen Ring — the reveal: the ancestors did not rise from the forest but fell from the Riven Sky.

The Ruins That Shouldn't Be — deeper into impossible ruins; the origin mystery sharpens.

The Ruins That Shouldn't Be — deeper into impossible ruins; the origin mystery sharpens.

Strangers in the Reeds - First contact with the Marsh Vael. Sedge unmasked; two peoples who each believed themselves alone. They fight the Ironfolk together — then Bracken sees the bone knife at Rook's belt and names the theft.

Strangers in the Reeds - First contact with the Marsh Vael. Sedge unmasked; two peoples who each believed themselves alone. They fight the Ironfolk together — then Bracken sees the bone knife at Rook's belt and names the theft.

The Long Winter The gathered tribes starve and doubt Rook. Cinder falls gravely ill. His leadership fractures — and a chief who won't lie has nothing comforting to say.

The Long Winter The gathered tribes starve and doubt Rook. Cinder falls gravely ill. His leadership fractures — and a chief who won't lie has nothing comforting to say.

The Sky Cage Too late for the mountain — the Ironfolk already hold the one who remembers the sky. The Sky Clan is broken or besieged; Kestrel must be asked, not recruited. A rescue, not a proving.

The Sky Cage Too late for the mountain — the Ironfolk already hold the one who remembers the sky. The Sky Clan is broken or besieged; Kestrel must be asked, not recruited. A rescue, not a proving.

The Bonding - A child's first bonding at the fire. That same night an orange glow stains the east — the Ironfolk. The tribe flees west, and across an unknown river a stranger stands bonded to a serpent.

The Bonding - A child's first bonding at the fire. That same night an orange glow stains the east — the Ironfolk. The tribe flees west, and across an unknown river a stranger stands bonded to a serpent.

The Straight Scar Following the geometric cut back to its source. The first real look at Iron Warden Vane and the machine he commands.

The Straight Scar Following the geometric cut back to its source. The first real look at Iron Warden Vane and the machine he commands.

The Deserter - Ash, an Ironfolk defector, confirms from the inside what the Vael only guessed — and answers how the straight-line people know what the Rings are. The Pact is tested on the enemy.

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