The descent into Valkyria was a walk through the fossilized heartbreak of Arborea. Cold, thick air hung heavy with the scent of ancient dust, ozone, and the metallic tang of spilled divinity – the lingering aura of Hera's sundered grace. The petrified trees of the Ashen Fields yielded to colossal ruins of dark, volcanic stone: shattered archways like broken ribs, towers leaning like drunken sentinels, and vast plazas paved with hexagonal slabs worn smooth by millennia of vanished processions. This wasn't merely a city; it was a fortress-temple, a monument to the martial Castanic spirit that had once been the western shield of the Eternal Vale.

Written by: Valky Fischer • Narrated by: VREXIRA • Music by: Våldsam Zane