Shadow Slave (forgotten shore Arc)

Aspect ability:His Aspect Ability gives him extreme speed.

Flaw:His Aspect Ability shortens his lifespan every time he uses it.

Battle Ability-

Caster from Shadow Slave is a Legacy with an Ascended-rank aspect focused on extreme speed, allowing him to blitz opponents, escape Nightmare Creatures, and act as a high-tier combatant. His abilities are suited for burst damage and rapid maneuvering, though his power comes with a significant flaw that accelerates his aging when using his speed abilities.

Key Abilities and Combat Features:Extreme Speed (Aspect Ability): Caster's primary ability allows him to move and fight at blinding speeds, making him a dangerous adversary in short, intense encounters.Legacy Combatant: As a legacy, he holds an inherently higher power potential and is often equipped to fight efficiently. Every time Caster uses his speed abilities, his body ages rapidly, meaning he must end battles quickly or risk dying from his own power.

Combat Focus: Compared to more generalist characters, his abilities are specialized for combat.His strength makes him a formidable opponent early in the story, but his flaw acts as a strict time limit in prolonged engagements.

But in pure swordsman ship, he is only one of a few who can go head to head with someone on a skill level of Nephis.

Caster was the scion of the Han Li Clan.[3] He joined the Awakened Academy a month before the Winter Solstice like Sunless, Cassie, and Nephis, a legacy.The young man had brown hair and a gentle, handsome face. His eyes were green, with a hint of friendly humor. His posture, figure and attentive gaze betrayed someone who went through extensive training. Everything about the young man screamed of nobility and strength.

Apperance-

Caster has a perfect body and broad shoulders that simply screamed power, appeal, and potency. With darker skin to match his gallant and manly image, he was basically the epitome of masculinity. This was contrasted by a handsome, but gentle face and humorous green eyes, creating a rather tempting visage.

Personality-

He portrays a noble and amiable personality.He is kind and helpful to many, but Sunny knew that this was a fake persona and that Caster had his own agenda. He is manipulative and controlling. He is careful in each step he takes, making sure that his plan succeeds.

Sunny thinks Caster was too perfect. In Sunny's experience, only people with bad intentions were capable of appearing so flawless.

In the end, it was proven true that Caster wasn't all that nice and friendly. Caster has a superiority complex for being a Legacy and looked down on everyone else who was not Legacies, especially Sunny. When Caster's true thoughts were revealed, it was shown that Caster considered Sunny to be merely a scum and a mongrel.

As well as caster has a hidden goal which is to kill Nephis (changing star) during the nightmare.

Dormant :(Sleeper)

Name : Kai

aspect ability: Enables him to fly.

Flaw: He can tell when someone is lying to him.

Battle Ability-

His main weapon of choice is Bow and Arrow. Kai can fly, allowing him to dominate the battlefield from above.His abilities primarily revolve around long-range bombardment, aerial utility, and disabling enemies with his voice, often complementing the melee-focused abilities of allies like Sunny or Nephis.

Specially since he is a remarkable Archer.

Kai (also known as Night) is the famous and known lead vocalist of Nightingale before he became a sleeper and was stuck in the Forgotten Shore. He is also one of the important characters in Shadow Slave.

Apperance-

A young man wearing light lamellar armor, with luscious dark auburn hair and mesmerizing green eyes. His well-fitted armor was made out of burnished brown leather, with deep blue embroidered garments beneath. Kai was tall, slender, and incredibly handsome. His face was small, perfectly shaped, and beautiful, with high cheekbones and flawless ivory skin. His green eyes were nothing short of electric, and his lips were soft and full.

Personality-

Kai is a good and very honest guy. He is also a very careful, alert, and collected person.His strange ability to sense lies made him less prone to having a lot of questions.

Kai prided himself on overcoming things like stage fright and social anxiety, as well as getting through many unpalatable situations with grace and elegance, not to mention managing to survive in the Dark City for three long years without losing his humanity.

He wanted to join Sunny and Effie to challenge the Second Nightmare because he wanted to get stronger to never turn a blind eye to injustice.

When Nephis returned, Sunny noticed that all this time, Kai must have been blaming himself for leaving Nephis behind. He was truly too decent of a person for this vile world, infected by a misguided sense of nobility. Knowing that he had escaped the hell of the Forgotten Shore because of someone else's sacrifice pressed down upon him a lot.

Aspect abilities: A strong all-around physical enhancement. It was practically the ultimate warrior ability that boosted her strength, speed, agility, endurance, and resilience.

Flaw:Enhances all her physical needs. She can eat enough meat to create a literal pile of gnawed bones.

Battle Ability-

Her main weapon of choice is a spear. Tank/Frontliner: Due to her high defense and offense, she operates as the main front-line protector for her allies. Pathfinder: She has deep knowledge of navigating dangerous areas, such as the Dark City, which she uses strategically in battle. Her abilities focus on massive strength, high durability, and enhanced mobility, often using hand-to-hand combat or spears to crush opponents with raw, essence-charged power.Augmentation: Her aspect gives her superior strength, speed, endurance, and resilience, boosting her physical capabilities well beyond normal Awakened.Immense Strength: She is capable of battling monstrous abominations with bare hands, often described as having the strength of a "dozen men" in her dormant state.

Apperance-

Effie is a tall and attractive young woman. She had hazel eyes and beautiful brown hair, tied in a simple braid. Her build is extremely athletic, with perfect lean muscles rolling under the dewy olive skin with each movement.

Back in the real world, she was a sickly, terribly gaunt young woman who was sitting in a wheelchair. She was unhealthily thin, with pale skin stretching over brittle bones and a strange twist to her spine. Her legs seemed lifeless and weak, tucked awkwardly on the step of her wheelchair. Her neck was clearly struggling to support the weight of her head.

Personality-

She is the most contented person ever seen in a nightmare, so laid back and cheerful.

In the real world, she is a person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness.

She was extremely intelligent, cool-headed, and cunning to be able to survive the three long years alone on the streets of the Dark City.

Feeding herself is her priority most of the time.Although Effie claimed to be an open book, Sunny described her as deceptive in a subtle way—someone who hides a hardened, battle-scarred version of herself beneath a cheerful and carefree exterior. She rejected the idea of being two separate selves, insisting that her cheerfulness and astuteness coexisted, and that her ability to enjoy life came from having endured great hardship.

she also has a habit of making dirty joke and making others feels shy and embarrassed, she gets fun out of getting someone flustered because of her teasing and comments specially sunny.

Name: Cassie

Rank: Dreamer

Aspect: Oracle

Aspect Rank: Sacred

Attributes:She has an affinity for revelations and fate.

Abilities:Her Aspect Ability allows her to see people's Attributes. She had to be close in order to learn about Attributes of Awakened and the Attributes and unholy powers of Nightmare Creatures.Sometimes, she also receives "visions". They can be about the past or the future.

Memories: quiet dancer( When Cassie holds its hilt, their bond intensifies, allowing her to vaguely sense what the flying rapier perceives. Although Quiet Dancer lacks typical human senses like sight or hearing, it can sense shapes and motion, which helps her navigate her surroundings despite being blind. This connection allows her to discern shapes and movement through the rapier's unique perception, helping her in combat and navigation.)

Flaw:She lost her sight.

Battle Ability-

This delicate girl wasn't the strongest or fastest of fighters but fought with confident grace and deadly insight like a true master. Cassie's incredible advantage was due to her unique and powerful Aspect which only she could use. To perceive both the present and future, to comprehend two states of the battle, and swiftly act in response to achieve the result while being blind. No one could imagine the mental strain and burden she had, however, it was possible to perform such a feat with clarity. After all, she was also Nephis' pupil alongside Sunny.

She used to be a pretty decent fencer before she got her flaw.

Cassia (or Cassie) is an important character in Shadow Slave. She had given up on her life and accepted death but she was saved by Nephis soon after she arrived in the Forgotten Shore. Since then, she has managed to survive, get stronger, and eventually return back to Earth.

Appearance-

She was delicate, demure, and very pretty. With pale blond hair, big blue eyes, and an exquisite face. She looks like a beautiful porcelain doll,A petite, exquisitely beautiful young woman who had delicate features, pale blond hair, and stunning blue eyes. Despite the fact that the young woman was dressed humbly, there was an aura about her that made it almost impossible to look away. It was as though she was a pristine heavenly creature that had somehow found her way to the dirty, imperfect mundane world.

The first time Sunny met Cassie in the Forgotten Shore, she was delicate and fragile, with blond hair and cerulean, aimless eyes. She was dressed in a simple tunic, with leather sandals on her feet and a cloak the color of sea waves draped around her shoulders.

Personality-

She's a quiet girl and cares for people around her. But she felt sorry for being useless that her mask of resolve slipped a little, revealing a desperate, angry, and frightened face beneath. According to Nephis, Cassie is strong. Burdened by knowledge thanks to her Aspect, she is quite mysterious.

Nephis mentioned that Cassie has a lot of secrets. She has her own thoughts and ideas. She is equally as strong as the rest of them.

Cassie had been a sweet, but helpless girl, broken by the severity of her crippling Flaw.

In public, Cassie was admired for her beauty and quiet demeanor, but her dangerous nature was not fully understood. Known as a competent advisor, some treated her with subtle reverence that afforded to oracles, but not highly respected due to her lack of accomplishment as a warrior.

Cassie's habit of keeping secrets stems from trauma from watching her visions become self-fulfilling prophecy

Name: Nephis. True Name: Changing Star.

Rank: Dreamer. Class: Tyrant. Soul Cores: [5/7]. Soul Fragments: (Refer to Nephis' Progression).

Memories: (Refer to Nephis' Memories). Echoes: (Refer to Nephis' Echoes). Attributes: (Refer to Nephis' Attributes).

Aspect: [Light Bringer]. Aspect Rank: Divine. Aspect Description: [You are a creature of light that was banished and doomed to exist in the darkness. You bring radiance and warmth to wherever you go, but with it comes indescribable longing.]

Innate Ability: [Halfbreed]. Ability Descriptions: [You can directly absorb a portion of the soul essence of any Nightmare Creature destroyed by your flames, as well as of any human.]

Aspect Ability: [Soul Flame]. Ability Description: [Your soul burns with the purest of flames. That flame can both restore and destroy, and is both a blessing and a curse.]

Flaw: [Pristine Soul] Flaw Description: [You must suffer to use your power.]

Battle Ability-

Nephis was able to move with the calm precision of a battle machine. Her technique was clean, graceful, and ruthless. No matter what type of attack was thrown at her, she was able to either predict or instantly react to it, then deflect and turn it against the attacker with a minimum amount of effort. She was swift, calm and precise. Every move she made was calculated and perfectly timed. She innately understood the flow and logic of combat, which gave her the ability to roughly predict what actions the mindless beasts would perform in the next seconds.

Despite not possessing the unnatural ability to peer into a being's essence through Shadow Dance, Nephis can study the enemy and discern their battle techniques. Her insight was not supernatural but valuable, as Nephis was a genius of combat, born and bred for battle, and had a chilling affinity to bloodshed and destruction.

Her favored style was always flowing and unpredictable, using a straight sword her prefered weapon of choice.

Apperance -

Nephis was a tall, slender girl around Sunny's age, with clear grey eyes and a detached look on her face. She had silver-white hair that was cut short and neatly parted to the side. The first time Sunny met Nephis in the Forgotten Shore, she was tall and lithe, with silky silver hair and grey eyes. Her clothes were made of black seaweed, leaving her fair skin and athletic build exposed. She was poised, alert, and barefoot.

Personality-

she seems to exist a bit apart from the world, she was mysterious, aloof, and rather cool. Her taciturn character and strange speech patterns made people interacting with her feel unnerved and rattled, often revealing more than they had been planning to. The less she talked, the more she seemed to know. That silent, indifferent confidence was arresting, and sometimes even oppressive.

However, that is completely wrong, as Sunny realized, Nephis was simply an incredibly awkward person. She was not in a habit of openly showing her emotions. As a result, she was so bad at emoting them that her face always looked cold and neutral. That's why, most of the time, she simply chose to talk as little as possible or not to talk at all.

She seemed like a noble person, seeing that she saved Cassie without asking for anything in return, just because she wanted to,Although she seemed noble, she is cynical and pragmatic as well.

Nephis may looked like an emotionless, aloof, and deadpan figure but it was not that she did not have feelings. She had just spent her formative years in solitude, unable to express her emotions in the company of others. Although she now knows how to communicate due to being a public figure, her default state remains unchanged, reverting to her childhood.

Many people thought that she was a cold and emotionless person, but she was a fiery individual with intense emotions, but she rarely displayed them.

Name: Sunless. True Name: Lost from Light. Rank: Dreamer. Shadow Core: Dormant.

Shadow Fragments: (Refer to Sunny's Progression).

Memories: (Refer to Sunny's Memories). Echoes: (Refer to Sunny's Echoes). Shadows: (Refer to Sunny's Shadows). Attributes: (Refer to Sunny's Attributes).

Aspect: [Shadow Slave]. Aspect Rank: Divine. Aspect Description: [You are a miraculous shadow left behind by a dead god. As a divine shadow, you possess plenty of strange and wondrous powers. However, your existence is empty and lonesome; you mourn the passing of your former master and long to find a new one.]

Innate Ability: [Shadow Bond]. Ability Description: [Find a worthy master and let them know your True Name. Once they recite it out loud, you will be bound to their will, unable to disobey any command. It is improper for a shadow, let alone a divine one, to walk around without a master.]

Aspect Ability: [Shadow Control]. Aspect Ability Description: [Your shadow is more independent than most. It is an invaluable helper.]

Aspect Legacy: [Shadow Dance].

Flaw: [Clear Conscience]. Flaw Description: [You cannot lie.]

Battle Ability-

Sunny behaves like a cowardly weakling, but in fact, he's the last person in the Dark City any would want to face in combat. He is far more dangerous than anyone thinks he is.The fighting style Nephis had given him was designed to be as adaptable as possible and seamlessly incorporate elements of other styles. It was a perfect foundational battle art. With the firm and grounded style, he weaved into his technique, his fighting ability improved earning the praises of Nephis and Kai.Sunny was a skilled fighter. But he was an even more talented deceiver. His preferences in weapons are a katana and an odachi.

Sunless (or Sunny), is the main character of Shadow Slave. Growing up in the outskirts and leading a life of deceit and focusing on his own survival, he initially has a bleak outlook on life, even resigning himself to his fate when he was infected by the Nightmare Spell. But then, inside his First Nightmare, he resolved to himself that he must survive, no matter what.

Appearance-

Almost every Awakened was pleasant to look at, but Sunny was far from being the most outstanding in terms of appearance among them. There was something elusive about him that attracted attention and almost demanded it. He still was a pale young man with dark hair, a small height, a delicate, slender build, and perfect white skin. His dark eyes had a humorous, slightly mischievous spark in them. He wasn't exactly handsome, but due to his small stature, pale complexion, and dark hair, he looked like a beautiful porcelain doll.

Personality-

He is a cynical, disillusioned young man with a bleak outlook on life. Despite this, he harbors a sense of humor and a strong desire to not only survive but also thrive in this world. During his First Nightmare, he exhibited caution and devious cunning that allowed him to survive it, earning him praise from the Spell, "Your treachery truly knows no bounds". He is smart and capable of being cold and ruthless when the situation asks for it. In the academy, he discovered a couple of new things about his self, deep down he was apparently rude arrogant and more than a little bit lustful. He is so adept at deception that he earned the reputation of being a pathological liar, and additionally, he is a paranoid person.

Background

It appeared in the world a few decades ago. Back then, the planet was just starting to recover from a series of devastating natural disasters and subsequent resource wars. No one knew what the Spell was, what powers it possessed, and how to fight it.

It all started with the emergence of a new disease that caused millions of people to complain about constant fatigue and sleepiness. Finally, the governments panicked when they started to fall into an unnatural slumber, with no sign of waking up even days later. When the infected died in their sleep, their dead bodies turned into monsters, no one was ready. Nightmare Creatures quickly overwhelmed national militaries, plunging the world into complete chaos.

The Spell helped Awakened learn their innate abilities by making them instinctual, such as controlling essence, using memories, and placing tethers in the waking world.

The Spell can show and notify the Awakened's status, which they only see and hear themselves. When one is cut off from the Spell, they are unable to access their soul sea or even summon memories. The Spell has a magical ability to translate any language in the Nightmare. The runes that all Awakened saw were just a handy instrument created by the Spell. Traveling between the two worlds is one of the functions of the Spell. Awakened of the waking world received the ability to sense their essence from the Spell and intuitive knowledge of controlling it.

Nightmares

Main article: Nightmares The Nightmares are trials created by the Spell. They are populated by both monsters and humans, which are considered to be illusory. Each Nightmare contains a central conflict that has to be resolved for the Nightmare to end. These conflicts are believed to be reconstructions of events from the ancient history of the Dream Realm.

Which forgetten shore is part of as well.

The Nightmare Spell, commonly called The Spell, infects young people, usually around sixteen to eighteen years old. After being infected, those chosen by the Spell experience an overwhelming desire to sleep. Once they succumb to this feeling, they are transported to their First Nightmare.

Purpose

The Nightmare Spell is alluring because it gives its carriers many abilities, such as ability to possess Memories and Echoes, ability to instantly enter your Soul Sea, and awaken your Aspect and guidance on the path of Ascension. It promised people who desperately wished for power to defend oneself.

Aspect-

An Aspect confluence of one's innate affinities and choices manifested as a magical specialization. Aspects grant the Awakened unique powers but also curse them with a Flaw.One's Aspect was their own, existing outside of the Spell.

Flaw-

Flaw Main article: Flaw A unique curse that was placed on the Awakened as the price for gaining mystical power.Every Awakened received a Flaw, sometimes called the counter. Flaws were as diverse as Abilities, ranging from comparatively harmless to crippling, or, in some cases, even fatal. Even if the flaw is reversed, it is still a curse. The new curse is likely to be far worse than the old one.

A creature with a triangular dorsal fin, and terrifying jaws with rows of giant teeth, each one as long as Sunny's height.

•   A colossal tentacled creature.
  

• A creature capable of mimicking human speech. It had come from the depths of the dark sea in a mantle of fog.

•   A flying abomination with a corpse-like white body and raven-black feathers, with an unnatural mess of powerful limbs protruding from its wide chest, each ending with a set of terrifying talons.
  

•   [Fallen Beast].
  

Giant spiders with bodies covered in thick plates of wrought iron. They moved with terrifying speed and force. A basilisk-like creature.

•   A towering nest of flesh-devouring termites.
  

•   [Awakened Monster].
  

A particular hardy wraith with a frightening appearance.

•   [Fallen Beast].
  

A massive, four-legged beast, with rotten and emaciated flesh hanging from the bones like a tattered coat. It can produce a human-like sob, an eerie sound that resembled stifled, heart-wrenching weeping. It looks like a crying woman in the fog.

•   A creature made of nothing but human bones (aka Skeleton).
  

•   Porcupine monsters.
  

•   [Awakened Monster].
  

A larger arachnid. These creatures were much heavier and more powerful, with thick plates of iron armor covering their bodies almost completely. [Awakened Tyrant]. A huge spider, as big as a house and utterly deadly. Armored like a hover tank.

•   [Fallen Creature].
  

A strange creature that looked like a cross between a translucent jellyfish and an eel. It was as large as a train and its jaws were full of sharp fangs and wide enough to swallow a human whole.

A deformed skeleton of a giant humanoid trapped within its transparent flesh.

• Colonies of carnivorous worms.

•   Giant centipedes that secreted corrosive oil.
  

•   Eerie vines that crawled on the ground like snakes.
  

•   Creatures that looked like black masses of rotten bones.
  

•   Beasts that could shoot deadly bone spears from their bodies.
  

Beasts that could turn their prey to stone with their gaze.

Flesh Reaver [Awakened Beast]. A giant locust. Iron Spider [Awakened Beast]. A giant spider that weaves webs throughout the Coral Labyrinth to catch prey. The string used to make webs is as strong as iron. Iron Spider Matriarch (Mentioned) The mother of all the iron spiders, as big as a house and utterly deadly. It was armored like a hover tank. Lord of the Dead [Fallen Tyrant]. A creature that was literally a mountain of bones.

In Chapter , Weakened by Bone-eating vine Rolling Stone [Awakened Monster]. A stone with a mouth full of long, sharp teeth on its surface. Stone Demon A giant Nightmare Creature twice the size of the Carapace Demon. It looked like a strange insect, somewhat resembling a weird mix of rhinoceros, beetle, and praying mantis, with a smooth carapace, massive horn, and deadly blades attached to the joints of its limbs. It seemed to be made out of stone. Stone Saint [Awakened Monster]. A living statue with a body extremely durable and capable of withstanding truly devastating amounts of damage. The stalwart stone warriors were also disciplined, proficient in the use of weapons, and utterly deadly. They were able to perfectly coordinate their movements, using strategy and tactics to silently overwhelm opponents whose power far surpassed their own. See also: Shadow Saint Vile Thieving Bird's Spawn [Great Devil]. A massive egg that seemed to be made of stone. Its surface was colored in various shades of grey, which were overlaid over each other like moving clouds. This pattern was strangely beautiful, giving the egg a mysterious aura. But overall, it was just big and smooth.

Blood Fiend [Awakened Monster]. A skeletal, hunched figure, at least two meters tall, dressed in a torn shroud that was once white but had long ago turned brown from the dried blood. The creature had long arms that ended with vicious claws and a deformed head with a wide mouth full of razor-sharp fangs. Blood Flower [Awakened Monster]. A creature that can parasitize other beings. It was in a form of red pollen that can devour any creature from inside. Carapace Centurion [Awakened Monster]. It was larger than the scavengers, with jagged spikes growing out of its thick carapace. Its chitin was black and crimson, like an ancient armor splattered with fresh blood. Instead of pincers, two terrifying bone scythes were protruding from the joints of its arms. Carapace Demon Main article: Carapace Demon Carapace Scavenger [Awakened Beast]. A creature two and a half meters tall, looking like a weird mix of a demonic crab, a centaur, and a nightmare. it had four pairs of long, segmented legs that ended in scythe-like protrusions. At the front, a human-like torso was protruding from the carapace, also clad in thick chitinous armor. The head was situated directly on top of the torso, with no neck in between. It had two narrow eye slits and a viscous-looking mouth with several slimy mandibles. Instead of hands, the monsters had two enormous pincers. Corpse Eater [Fallen Beast]. An enormous leech about a meter long, its slimy skin slightly translucent and red as dried blood. Crimson Coral Golems of the Heroes [Awakened Creatures]. Crimson Coral Golems of Mundane Humans Hidden in the darkness inside the Crimson Spire, countless coral golems of mundane people were staring mindlessly in the distance. Each of the golems represented one of the souls that had been sacrificed to the artificial sun and became part of it forever.

Dark City is an abandoned, ruined city located on the Forgotten Shore. It is simultaneously the safest place to be on the Forgotten Shore, and also the deadliest. It is safe because no sea monster can cross the wall, let alone reach the castle. But at the same time, it is far more dangerous than the Labyrinth because almost every Nightmare Creature here is of the Fallen rank.

Location

Located in a vast, ruined city built of weathered stone. It was surrounded by tall, impregnable walls. Various monsters were wandering its narrow streets.

Population-There were somewhere around five hundred Sleepers living in the ancient stronghold. There was a complex hierarchy in place, separating people into different castes. Some of these groups had a distinct place in the hierarchy, while others were less clearly defined.

Background

Fifteen years ago, or so a group of powerful and desperate Sleepers managed to reach this city and claim the castle for themselves. Not because it had a Gateway, but because it was the only place that could keep them safe. At least for a while. Ever since then, a few lucky or resourceful people would find their way to the castle each solstice, only to get stuck here with the rest of them.Most sleepers stay in the city outskirts potentially risking an attack against the nightmare creatures that prowl the outskirts.

The first lord of the castle led an expedition to find the way out of the Forgotten Shore and never returned. The second ruler, the last member of the original cohort, tried to reach the Gateway but perished too. A man named Gunlaug became the third ruler. If a sleeper wants to enter and live in the safety of the castle walls, protected and provided for by his hunters, they need to pay a tribute of one soul shard each week.Under his protection,sleepers do not need to worry about the nightmare creatures outside.Unless they are rich with an abundance of soul shards,they can work under different factions depending on their Aspect abilities

This tree rose into the sky like a tower, its branches wide enough to cover the whole Ashen Barrow in their shade. Its bark was as black as the water of the Dark Sea, while its leaves were as red as blood. The crimson crown of this majestic tree looked incredibly vibrant and magnificent in contrast to the gray sky.This magnificent tree stands atop the Ashen Barrow with its onyx branches and vibrant scarlet leaves. It looked striking and majestic. Its fruits, hanging between the scarlet leaves, were round and appetizing.

According to Sunny, the succulent, juicy fruit was probably the most delicious thing he had ever tasted. It was both nourishing and refreshing, with a rich texture and a soft lingering aftertaste. The ruby fresh practically melted on his tongue.

Ability

It has powerful mind hexes that can subdue creatures and make them want to spend the rest of their lives taking care of the tree. In return, the tree gives them its Soul Fruits which could be used as a substitute for soul shards. It is suspected previous victims' souls are trapped within its fruits.

The origin of the Soul Devouring Tree is a black seed that lay upon a mountain of corpses forming a blood-soaked hill. The black seed lay floating in a pool of blood there and grew to become this terror

Located at the center of the Labyrinth and Forgotten Shore itself. At the base of the colossal crimson spire, seven severed heads were guarding seven locks. The Gateway is inside the Crimson Spire, guarded by a Fallen Terror.

The Crimson Spire is a giant soul machine. It was created to collect soul essence and funnel it into the artificial sun. However, it can't function without one small, but crucial gear. A human to serve as the fulcrum of all that power, the conduit for all those souls, the vessel.

The artificial sun does not just illuminate the vicinity of the Crimson Spire. It illuminates the whole of the Forgotten Shore. Its light reaches everywhere. When the ancient curse was banished and locked underground, the sun was finally liberated from its shackles. That's why its light suddenly changed, turning into the annihilating white radiance that wiped out most of the living creatures on the Forgotten Shore. All that death and countless souls were guided into the Spire by the Labyrinth, like a colossal hecatomb, to fuel the evolution of the Crimson Terror.

The area that flowed from Crimson Spire. The labyrinth was vast and multi-layered. The paths between coral pillars were sometimes broad, sometimes narrow. They twisted and turned without any logic, often leading to dead ends or even back to where they started. More than that, some paths entered inside the "coral" mounds, turning into dark tunnels.[12] Traveling to the Labyrinth has nothing else but corals and a cursed sea. Above, there are swarms of dreadful flying abominations hiding in the clouds. The crimson "coral" all around the Labyrinth was not an actual coral. It's what they called based on some resemblance for simplicity. The actual nature of the strange material remained a mystery. The Crimson Spire is the source of this. It is speculated that the Labyrinth is actually part of a colossal living creature, a giant maw with which the Crimson Terror absorbed the soul essence of every creature that bled on the coral before it died.

Crater Beyond the western edge of the Ashen Barrow, the slope of this side of the island was much steeper. At the spot where it was supposed to end, the familiar sight of the flat wasteland was nowhere to be seen. Instead, the ground continued to slope downward at a less drastic, but still considerably sharp angle.

It continued far into the distance that the whole island appeared to be standing on the edge of a colossal depression in the earth, one that stretched as far as the eye could see. With its edges slightly curved, it resembled a giant crater left behind by an unimaginable impact.

The crater's diameter could only be calculated in hundreds of kilometers. The roots of the Soul Tree, which could be seen protruding from the soil far below, seemed like tiny blades of grass in comparison to the sheer size of the abyssal chasm's wall.

Bone Ridge A towering landmark visible from afar, standing out in ivory splendor against the crimson coral and grey sky. It was made of bone, formed from the skeletal remains of a colossal sea monster lying on an enormous mound of chaotically growing coral, with its arching spine protruding high above the ground. The creature it had once been gargantuan, even by the standards of the dark sea. The labyrinth around it was littered with remains of dead leviathans, whose bones created natural arches and palaces, with coral growing especially tall and dense near them, as if burying the whiteness in a sea of crimson. It appeared that coral was growing out of the old bones, spreading outward like solidified rivers of ancient blood. The beast forming the Bone Ridge was so immense that a portion of its spine remained above water at night, making it an ideal stopping point for one's journey. Passing through its cracked skull, whose upper jaw formed a cavernous cave, and entering the hollow expanse of its spine, where the bone surface beneath was as wide as a road, resembling a highway running through a tunnel lit by beams of light through the gaps between massive vertebrae.

Ashen Barrow A tall hill capable of becoming a real island once the water rose in the night. Its shape is of a colossal barrow. It was covered in gray sand left behind by dead coral. This hill resembled a mountain of ash that was crowned by a giant tree. The Sea of Ash was lying west of the crimson labyrinth. From a distance, the labyrinth seemed to lose its color there — the crimson blades of coral turned grey and misshapen, as though struck by some unknown disease and drained of all life. The stone-like coral appeared brittle and fragile, ready to crumble to dust at any moment. The dead coral stretched endlessly, eventually giving way to a sea of ash-grey sand — an ashen wasteland that looked alien and strange after weeks of endless crimson pathways. The entire area was eerily quiet and lifeless, with not a single monster moving beneath the surface. Covered in grey sand left behind by the dead coral, the landscape extended toward a tall hill that resembled a colossal barrow, crowned by a giant, black-barked tree with blood-red leaves. The wasteland itself was unnaturally silent and empty, completely devoid of life. On the other side of the crater, opposite the Dark City. It's where the Soul Tree stands

Forgotten Shore is a harrowing, but beautiful place. The somber grey sky and the black earth created a perfect backdrop for the vibrant crimson sea of twisting coral blades. Here and there, strange landmarks broke the dullness of the landscape.

It would have been as large as a continent back on Earth.It is one of the unique regions in the Dream Realm, located north of the Hollow Mountains.

Which has various key locations like ashen barrow,bone ridge,crater,crimson spire,labyrinth and the only safe haven for all sleepers the dark city.