The Fracture Child

Myth of the Emberborn: The Birth of Kael’Voryn the Fracture Child.   According to one of Thauzuno’s oldest surviving oral data-rituals, the infamous war-cleric Kael’Voryn—later known as the Fracture Child—was not born in any hospital, clone forge, or wet-cradle district. Instead, his origin is tied to a tectonic event within the Vol’Zhar Fracture itself. As the tale goes, during a particularly violent Vraathic Echoquake, a rift opened in the glass-laced earth beneath a long-dead arcology. From this breach, amid magma vapor and electric rain, emerged a newborn wrapped in thermophilic lichen and breathing unaided in the acidic air. The scavenger clan that found him claimed no woman bore him, nor had they seen any gestation chamber nearby—only a crater steaming with radiant heat and a pressure anomaly that briefly silenced all comms within a three-kilometer radius.   The myth insists he bore no umbilical scar, only a set of tattoos etched along his vertebrae that glowed faintly during geomagnetic storms. These markings, later interpreted by the Vey’dan Glyphpriests, were said to resemble ancient pre-Collapse encryption signatures, lost to even the oldest databanks. Syndicate oracles later tried (and failed) to replicate the conditions of his “birth,” leading some to believe Kael’Voryn was a planetborn artifact—a living fracture-node created by Thauzuno itself as a response to growing entropy. Whether divine, synthetic, or anomalous, his followers claim his every movement echoed tectonic shifts and that when he finally disappeared into the Echelon Basin, the ground itself wept oil and ash for six days straight.