Five heavenly bodies exist within this system, four of which are named after songs of mourning: Monody, Elegy and it’s moon Coronach, and Threnody. As far as we know only Threnody is inhabited. Further outside the habitable zone is the lone gas giant, Purity. Travelling to this system via the cognitive realm is difficult as it lacks a stable perpendicularity.
While there is no shard here, Ambition fought with Odium in the empty space of the system, and the effects still linger.
“Forescout blood, stubborn to the last breath. They say your grandparents were the first of the first. The first people to come scout this continent, the first to homestead the Forests…first to stake a claim on hell itself.”
“Don’t call the Forests that. This is my home.”
“But it is how men saw this land, before the Evil. Doesn’t that make you curious? Hell, land of the damned, where the shadows of the dead made their home.”
“City fool,” she whispered, then flipped the drop of blood at him. It hit him on the cheek. “Always follow the Simple Rules. Even when you think you don’t have to.”