The Cavern of Desecration
The air at the foot of the shattered peaks was heavy and motionless, a thick, green-black haze of corrupted essence hanging over the ruins like a shroud. The once-majestic entrance to the Shadowmoon caves, a cavernous archway carved by time and pure essence, was now a jumble of splintered stone and crushed earth. For the small band of survivors, this sight was not just a symbol of their pack’s destruction, but a physical wound on the heart of their world.
Kieran led them to the edge of the rubble, his face a grim mask of resolve. He closed his eyes, reaching out with his newly honed senses. The Unifier's attunement, which had felt so vast and pure in the Whispering Cascades, was here a source of profound agony. He could feel the pain of the earth, the suffocatin
