As Celestine prepared the divine inheritance ritual, she gestured for Luna and Victor to sit before the great wall of carvings. "Before you accept the mantle of divinity," she said solemnly, "you must understand the complete story of what you are becoming. The legend of Selene is not just the history of the Moon Goddess—it is the prophecy of her return and the blueprint for the world she died to protect."
The carved symbols began to glow with soft silver light as Celestine spoke, the ancient stone responding to her voice like a living thing awakening from centuries of slumber.
"In the time before time, when the earth was young and the boundaries between physical and spiritual realms were fluid, there existed beings of pure cosmic force. They were not gods as mortals understand divinity,
