- Name
- The Predicted Stillmere
- Date
- Blacktide 27, Year 698
- Description
- The Lantern Archive's oldest calendar, brittle with age and written in a hand none living can quite place, reveals a prophecy long buried in its margins: the hidden thirteenth month, Stillmere, will begin in three days' time.
If the archive speaks truth—and its keepers have found no reason to doubt it—then Vael Tareth may touch the real world for a full tide. The veil between that place and this grows thin once every countless years, and when it does, the threshold between becomes passable. A city lost to shadow and forgetting may become, for one brief season, reachable.
Mira knows what this means. Three days to prepare. Three days before she might finally cross into Vael Tareth and learn what became of Edran, who vanished into that other world and has not returned in the years since. The Archive's seers speak with cautious hope, though hope is a luxury in these grey lands. Still, she gathers what she can—a map that may no longer be true, a compass that points toward absence, and the fragile conviction that some answers are worth the crossing.