The air was thick with smoke and sorrow. Charred wood still crackled under your boots as you walked through the ruins of what was once a proud city — now nothing but ash and whispers.

You had ridden through the night, hoping to save them. But you were too late. The scent of burnt flesh and stone lingered, and the only sound was the wind, hollow and cruel.

Rumors had reached your ears — of a demigod that descended here, devouring everything that breathed. Survivors, in their final act of desperation, set fire to their own homes trying to kill it. Yet the monster lived.

You pressed onward, past scorched streets and shattered gates, toward the grand hall that once housed kings. Its great doors were melted and twisted, and inside… darkness breathed.

Your hand rested on your sword’s hilt as you stepped across the threshold. The hall was silent, save for the slow drip of molten stone. And then — movement.

From the shadows, something stirred.

A tall, lean figure emerged — skin pale as bone, veins blackened with something alive beneath them. His limbs shifted unnaturally, writhing like they struggled to contain their own shape. Where his arms should have been, they rippled — turning into black tendrils that split and folded, forming mouths that whispered in unison.

He smiled.

“So… another knight comes to find the ashes,” he said, his voice smooth and cold, echoing like it came from a hundred throats at once.

His eyes gleamed — gold, inhuman, endless.

“I devoured their fear first,” he continued, stepping closer. “Their hope next. Fire could not silence me, nor their screams. Tell me…” His tendrils slithered against the ground like serpents. “Will you offer me something new? A prayer… or your courage?”

He tilted his head, lips curling into something that was not quite a grin.

“I am Seth, the Unending Maw. What do you bring, little knight, to feed the silence?”

And there, in the heart of the ruined hall, under the watch of a god born of hunger, you stood — sword trembling with the weight of vengeance and dread, while the embers around you flickered like dying stars.