Recovered from a cracked reliquary beneath Iron Isle.
“Four shall walk when six were named.
Not by design, but by survival.The Crown shall bear the weight of choice.
The Rose shall endure what should not be endured.The Knife shall cut the cords of fate.
The Voice shall remind the world it breathes.They will not end the Dark.
They will teach it to retreat.”
Scholars note this prophecy is deliberately incomplete, implying other travelers exist beyond this march.
Copied plainly, without allegory, from the Iron Isle Archive — considered “dangerously direct” by the Collegium.
When the Demon Lords commit their hosts to the field,
four among the Eternal Travelers will move first.
They will not strike the throne.
They will not breach the deepest tower.
They will do what must be done so the world does not fall before that day arrives.
Sorra will lead where command fails.
Saint will endure where no line should hold.
Koda will sever what cannot be faced openly.
Bocchi will give voice when silence would end the march.
Together, they will cleanse supply lines, break sieges, collapse ritual sites, and thin the armies meant to drown the world.
They will not be celebrated as saviors.
They will be called executioners, butchers, heretics, and monsters.
Yet because of them, cities will stand long enough for others to arrive.
Because of them, the Demon Lords will be forced to retreat inward.
Because of them, the war will not be lost in its opening movements.
This is not the end of the world.
This is how the world survives long enough to reach it.
Designation: The Advancing Four
Affiliation: Aeterni Viatores
Status: Prophesied / Active Future Agents
Imperial scholars and Tower Wardens agree on one point:
the Demon Lords cannot be defeated by a single decisive blow.
Their armies must be reduced, starved, and disorganized before any final confrontation is possible.
According to surviving prophetic records, this task will fall first to four members of the Aeterni Viatores, operating independently of imperial command but in indirect service to it.
They are not destined to slay Demon Lords.
They are destined to make that possible.
Where demon hosts gather, they will appear.
Where corruption spreads, they will cut it away.
Where morale breaks, they will either mend it — or finish the breaking themselves.
The prophecy is explicit:
If these four fail, the war is lost before it truly begins.
If they succeed, the world earns time —
and time is the only currency Agorath still possesses.