Where the Sky Once Broke
Far from the ordered plains of Golden Reach and the guarded mountains of the north lies a scar upon the world known as the Shattered Halo.
It is not a city.
Not a kingdom.
Not even truly a region.
It is a wound.
The land there forms a vast circular expanse of fractured stone and glassed earth, as though something immense descended from the heavens and shattered upon impact. Jagged crystalline spires arc upward in a broken ring, forming the faint outline of what might once have been something whole.
From above, the formation resembles a halo — cracked, incomplete, and embedded in the world.
At night, faint light can sometimes be seen moving along the broken arc of stone — not flame, not lightning, but something quieter.
Something deliberate.
Travelers avoid the center.
Expeditions that attempt to cross the ring report:
- Distorted compass readings
- Flickers of Aether without visible source
- A sensation of standing beneath something vast
No ruins have been found.
No clear origin determined.
But scholars agree on one thing:
The Shattered Halo was not formed by erosion.
It was formed by arrival.
Is no longer there.