Ancestral Lineage

The battlefield was still.

Fragments of shattered constellations hovered like frozen dust. The remnants of divine combat floated in the air—fractured melodies, bleeding time, broken laws. And in the center of it all, the seven Chosen knelt in silence, surrounded by the silent corpses of gods whose lights had flickered out… but not gone.

Their breaths came slow, uneven. Wounds they couldn't see pulsed through their spirits. No one spoke. They couldn't.

Because something ancient had begun.

It started with Vorden. Of course it did.

His body began to tremble—not in weakness, but in rejection. The laws of this realm, of godhood itself, could no longer contain him. Light and shadow twisted around him, arguing, then merging. His psychic domain expanded again, but this time it didn't stop. His thoughts bled into the stars, into creation itself, and everything listened.

A pulse beat from his chest—not his heart, but from deeper, an essence, a core of origin. The Artim on his back cracked, disintegrated into particles of light and darkness, then reformed—not as wings, not as halo, but as a ring of shifting balance, always spinning, always stable.

Vorden's body lifted from the broken ground. His skin shimmered, not with gold, but with equilibrium, as if light and dark had made a pact inside him. His hair grew long, and each strand shimmered between black and white. His eyes opened wide, and in them spun the symbols of harmony and duality.

He didn't scream, nor roar—he simply existed, and the universe bent slightly toward him.

And then the world whispered his name—not just the world, but all worlds.

Primordial Balance.

Next was Lith, still kneeling beside a broken starstone, his titan arms dug into the earth. His fire flickered low, almost out. His skin was cracked, his bones heavy. But then… time paused.

He blinked.

And in that blink, he saw everything.

Himself as a child. Himself as a monster. Himself now. Himself after.

The God Essence within him wasn't violent—it was old, older than gods, older than flame. It flowed like dust and silence. A clock ticked behind his eyes. And then ticked backward. Then forward. Then all at once.

Lith fell backward, but didn't land. He was no longer bound to time's river. The Titan within him stood tall again—but now it wept.

He understood. Time wasn't chains. Time was memory. And memory could rebuild a future.

From his chest, a pendulum formed, slowly swinging in impossible directions.

His fire turned translucent—eternal.

He stood up, a being of shifting age and agelessness. The Titan bowed to him now.

Primordial Time.

Alma lay among the shattered winds, her sabers gone, her beast companions dust. Her lungs burned, her voice mute. The sky refused to blow, as if afraid.

But the silence didn't last.

A seed formed beside her.

She didn't know why she reached for it, or how. But the moment her fingers brushed it, the entire battlefield breathed. A vine erupted skyward from the broken realm, breaking through clouds, through dimensions.

Her sabers reformed as branches, glowing with life. Her own blood ran green and gold. Her wind returned—not as a tool, but as breath. She had created something.

Something new.

The sky opened, and a giant beast—no known species, not recorded nor tamed—descended and curled beside her, born of her will.

Alma rose, her steps now soft but shaking the world. The air whispered as she moved. The wind sang again.

From her back, six wings of woven roots and stardust sprouted, each one fluttering in rhythm with a pulse of birth.

Primordial Creation.

Radar fell face-first, lifeless. His bones felt like stone. His spirit silent. Death had come for him. And he let it.

Then he heard it.

A voice.

Not in words, but in the silence between breaths. The language of endings. It welcomed him.

He opened his eyes and saw nothing—yet it felt full. So full. All the lives he had ever touched. All the ones he had ever ended. All the flesh, all the bones, all the goodbyes.

He smiled.

And took a step deeper.

He didn't die. He became death itself.

The ground turned to ash beneath him, but not decay—peace.

His alchemy now refined not matter but souls. His necromancy was no longer reanimation—it was continuation, the preservation of essence beyond form.

A scythe formed from his thoughts, shaped from his oldest regrets. He held it—not to harvest, but to remember.

Primordial Death.

Keira floated in silence. Her blood had leaked out, her voice gone hoarse from screaming. Sound was gone. Curse was quiet. Even her own body was becoming undone.

But then…

She heard a heartbeat.

It wasn't hers.

It was everything's.

The grass. The clouds. Her enemies. Her allies. Even the gods that had perished.

Life.

It existed in everything. Not just as a force, but as a conversation. A song. A wound. A chance.

Her blood returned, not as red, but iridescent. Her eyes became prisms, her body glowing with infinite rhythms.

With a snap of her fingers, she reignited the heartbeat of the realm. Flowers bloomed. Dust reformed.

She smiled.

And life smiled back.

Primordial Life.

Kira was screaming. Not in pain—but in exaltation.

His violin had shattered. His god-art had devoured itself. There was nothing left.

And that was exactly the point.

Destruction was not the absence of creation—it was its partner.

His blood swirled upward, and in it formed shapes of impossible architecture. Then he destroyed them with a thought. And again. And again.

Not for malice. For freedom.

His music returned, but not as a violin—he was the instrument now. His voice was the overture, and his steps were apocalypse.

He rose above it all, black wings of annihilation stretching behind him, and he smiled a smile that cracked the horizon.

Primordial Destruction.

And then came Kyle.

He had not moved at all. His strings had long since snapped. His puppets gone. But his eyes were open.

They saw everything.

All the chaos, all the beauty, all the pain, all the jokes, all the things that made no sense. He didn't fight it. He laughed.

And in that laugh, reality trembled.

The strings came back—but not from his hands. From everything. Cause and effect danced for him. He raised a hand and chaos bowed. Time warped around him. Puppets returned—but this time, the puppets were concepts.

He pulled on one, and it rained sideways.

He pulled on another, and death gave birth.

His grin was crooked. His presence unplaceable. But no one could look away.

Primordial Chaos.

And so, the battlefield changed.

Seven thrones rose, forged not by divine right, but earned.

They didn't just defeat gods.

They became the source.

Not of worship.

But of truth.

Balance. Time. Creation. Death. Life. Destruction. Chaos.

The First Seven.

The Primordials.

And their awakening shook every corner of the multiverse…Because the Old Gods were not truly dead.

They would return.

But now…they would return to a world that had moved beyond them.