The Starborn Codex: Entry I

The Night the Star Fell, and the War That Followed

Archivists’ Note
The Regents do not agree on how this began.

Ask Ember, and they will swear it was destiny.
Ask Bloom, and they will call it tragedy.
Ask Sky, and you will receive a lecture on inevitability.
Pearl will lower their gaze and speak of tides and consequence.
Shadow will smile, and say nothing at all.

We, however, are not permitted the luxury of myth.

We are the Archivists of the Realms.
Our duty is simple, and impossible:

To record what truly was.
Even when the Courts prefer what is beautiful instead.

What follows is the closest thing to truth we can offer about the Starfallen, the war it brought, and the pact that binds every Regent to the Veil you now walk beneath.

Some names have been lost.
Others have been erased on purpose.

But the scars remain, and scars are a kind of record too.