The Star Streak settles within the receiving hall of Thalassa’s vast silver vessel. Kael still holds the open crystal-bound record, accompanied by Aurora, Sophie, Maisie, Emma, Miles, Anna, and Julia.
Silver walls rise like moonlit cliffs around the receiving chamber. Thalassa approaches, and even though she has decreased her size to that of a human, she still towers over the crew, her blue skin luminous beneath flowing pink hair and her golden eyes fixed on Kael.
Thalassa
Captain Kael Umal, I have something meant for you alone. It may illuminate what the library record could not.
Thalassa extends a small silver box in one enormous hand. Its lid bears no crest, only a dark constellation etched so finely it seems to shift when viewed from different angles.
Aurora
Another memory vessel. The resonance is unmistakably connected to the crystal you carry.
When the box opens, a black crystal rests within, starless and perfectly smooth. Sealed impressions stir beneath its surface: a distant galaxy, unfamiliar constellations, and fragments of a life hidden behind Kael’s forgotten identity.
Thalassa
This crystal has been in my family for centuries. I am being compelled to give it to you now. I sense that your true nature is not what it seems.
Sophie
Captain, the crystal is responding to you. Shall we give you privacy, or remain beside you?
✓ Quest Accepted
Awaken the black crystal's memories
“Kael takes the crystal in his hand and unleashes a flood of memories. A great war that destroyed gods and worlds. The origin of his black sword created from folded time and space. A divine realm ruled by him called "Bliss". A realm to match the characteristics of his divine nature of both War and Lust.”
SUCCESS (Superb Willpower, rolled +0)
Kael takes the black crystal. Its cold surface dissolves beneath his palm, and a flood of memory breaks open around him without sound.
Gods fall across burning worlds. Starless armies tear through divine realms, while time folds inward, compressed into the first shape of Kael’s black sword.
Beyond the war, a radiant realm unfolds: Bliss, ruled by Kael beneath constellations shaped to his divine nature, where War and Lust stand as twin crowns.
The visions surge through him and settle into certainty. The crystal remains whole in his hand, its darkness now threaded with distant stars.
Aurora
These crystals were all part of your contingency plan, in case something horrible befell you. You placed some of your most recent memories in them, thousands of years ago, before you were wounded in battle.
Thalassa
Then the crystal belonged to you in the first place. You must have entrusted it to my ancestors for safekeeping until your return.
Sophie
Kael, is there something you would like to tell us?
Quest Complete
Awaken the black crystal's memories
+ New Item Acquired
Black crystal