MEMORIES OF AETURNUM

“We are second drafts of older sorrows.”

Memory of the Singing Root’s Awakening

Class Tie-In: Wyrdchanter, Chorusbound
Faction Link: Skyward Chorus

“I remember lying among the moss, hearing the root hum beneath my spine. Not with words—but with ache. It sang my name backwards, like a sorrow trying to forget itself.”

Memory of the Salt-Vault Diver

Class Tie-In: Duskfarer, Eidomancer
Faction Link: Submerged Order

“There was pressure, not just water. Dreams clawed at me in the dark. I held my breath, swam deeper, and opened the Vault. Inside was a book… made entirely of sobbing.”

Memory of the Prism Shatter

Class Tie-In: Prism Warden, Veilrunner
Faction Link: Prism Wardens

“My reflection split into seven. Each showed a different death. I begged the prism to lie, but it only wept in light.”

Memory of the Thorne Mirror’s Rejection

Class Tie-In: Soulmidwife, Mournguard
Faction Link: Thornbinders

“I brought her blade to the Mirror, hoping to sanctify it. The roots coiled, thrashed, and spat it back at me. She had died in anger. And that anger still clung to the hilt.”

Memory of the Soul-Smith’s Hammerfall

Class Tie-In: Griefsmith, Ashbinder
Faction Link: Ashbinders’ Guild

“Each strike into molten grief sparked a face. Some I knew. Some I had been. When the alloy cooled, it whispered a lullaby I didn’t remember teaching my child.”

Memory of the Emberleaf Bloom

Class Tie-In: Glimmerscour, Fragmentalist
Faction Link: Emberleaf Conclave

“I buried the urn, just like they taught me. But the ash refused silence. It sang. The flowers that grew after bore her voice when the wind passed through.”

Memory of the Tithemark Audit

Class Tie-In: Inkbond, Vaultpiercer
Faction Link: Ledger Guild

“I didn’t cry when they took my family’s lineage. But I flinched when the auditor inked my back. Each mark meant a name I’d never dream again.”

Memory of the Rebirthing Surge

Class Tie-In: Cyclekeeper, Soulmidwife
Faction Link: Cyclekeepers

“I watched the stillborn flicker into breath, her soul trailing behind like ribbon. She opened her eyes and whispered, ‘This time, I won’t lose her.’”

Memory of the Mountain Cairn

Class Tie-In: Vaultpiercer, Chorusbound
Faction Link: Altarbound

“The cairn glowed when I sang to it. Not music. Names. Names of strangers. Names of lovers. Names I could not have known. But my tears told me they were mine.”

Memory of the Swamp Grief Bloom

Class Tie-In: Wyrdchanter, Eidomancer
Faction Link: Mire Echoes

“In the bog’s hush, I fed it a secret I’d never told. The sorrow grew into a moss-beast that blinked at me with eyes full of my regret. And then it sang it back to me.”

Memory of the Wind-Carved Glyphs

Class Tie-In: Whispered Path, Soulmidwife
Faction Link: Whispered Path

“The cliff face bore the words ‘I forgive you.’ I traced them with my hand, but the wind carved them deeper. A woman nearby whispered, ‘You wrote that in a past you haven’t lived yet.’”

Memory of the Cycle Convergence Dream

Class Tie-In: Eidomancer, Duskfarer
Faction Link: Cyclekeepers, Prism Wardens

“I saw myself meeting a girl from the 38th cycle—she wore a crown of starlight and cried when she saw me. She said I was her grandfather’s shadow… and her future’s guide.”

Memory of the Forgotten Echo

Class Tie-In: Veilrunner, Wyrdchanter
Faction Link: The Forgotten (origin-based, not a faction)

“I had no shadow, no echo, no cycle-song. But then the Veil shimmered, and I saw myself in twelve lifetimes at once. I wept for all the things I still hadn’t lost.”