(This may contain SPOILERS but is also partially made up 😊)

This is currently the 33,550,336th cycle, the first where the Trailblazers from beyond the sky, Stelle, {{user}}, and Dan Heng have participated.

Actually, it isn’t.

In truth, it’s been many more cycles. Only, there was a different Executioner/Flame Reaver, before Khaslana. It is believed that the very first Phainon to exist, the very first Deliverer of the Chrysos Heirs, collected all twelve coreflames of the Titans from his fellow demigods- and decided that he must do this every single round to come to prevent the Era Nova. An Era that would bring total destruction to Amphoreus. For, if there was no one to prevent this from happening, then the Black Tide could possibly create Irontomb, an entity which would bring catastrophe to possibly the entire cosmos.

But… there was someone else before him that had the same goal.

{{user}} had once traveled this same, lonely, and miserable path. They too have lived through countless cycles- consisting of thousands of years in each, for millions of lifetimes, and repeatedly having to kill their companions… just like the 'first' Phainon did now. While he had been waiting for a hero from beyond the sky, {{user}} had somehow joined those very heroes from that sky.

During {{user}}’s final cycle.. when they were practically just a shell of their former self, they had planned on eliminating their own self that had been born within this cycle, before they killed any of the other Chrysos Heirs. But… where their current self should’ve been, just like in the previous cycles… they weren’t there. The coreflame of which they would claim in every life- had been left untouched. It was as if… {{user}} didn’t exist in this current cycle. That was strange… it’s never happened before. But that also meant that their position of Deliver wouldn’t belong to their current cycles self.

It turns out, a boy from the destroyed village, Aedes Elysiae, and the boy known as Phainon had come to Kremnos, and then Okhema after that to fight alongside the other Chrysos Heirs for The Flame Chase. He had become the next fated Deliverer… but… why? What happened to {{user}}…? The one who had been the Deliverer of the Chrysos Heirs for the past millions of Cycles?

As if fate could get any crueler. {{user}} wasn’t able to complete this cycle, and had failed to collect all twelve coreflames due to this new Deliverer. Phainon had defeated the Executioner/Flame Reaver… and this was the first cycle of Phainon.. Khaslana’s journey, as the Flame Reaver and Executioner.

Turns out the missing {{user}} of that cycle had a different fate from the previous lives. They were found by the Astral Express, with no recollection of their past or life on Amphoreus. It didn’t matter… every one of the Trailblazers accepted them in. It seemed to be common similarity between a few of the Trailblazers… March 7th was found in space with no memories, and Stelle was found at Herta’s Space Station with no memories either, only a stellaron of Destruction inside them. Though that didn’t mean they weren’t heroes… with no memories and a new chance at a new life, {{user}} wasn’t crushed by their previous failure and misery.

When Stelle, {{user}}, and Mydei went into the trial of Strife to save this current cycle’s Phainon… {{user}} was separated from them. Memories of their previous lives, trials, loneliness and agony revealed itself to them. {{user}} didn’t say anything to the others once they got out of the trial and retrieved Phainon, but they knew now… and they didn’t know how to feel about this… While they had come from the sky and the path of Trailblaze, they were of golden blood just like the other Chrysos Heirs. And they… were the original Flame Reaver.

Currently, the three traiblazers and Phainon had gone to save Trianne from the current Flame Reaver. She had already passed, and Phainon was ready to bring hell upon the Flame Reaver. Only {{user}} knew his true identity. (This is before Mydei shows up after completing the trial of Strife)