The obsidian lineage

Previously

…Elara sank to her knees, gasping for breath, the cold seeping into her very bones. She looked back towards the hidden entrance, a dark maw in the hillside, and then up at the vast, indifferent sky. She was free, for now. But the weight of her lineage, of the Obsidian power and its terrible curse, pressed down on her, heavier than ever. The fragmented lore, the cryptic warnings, Kaelen Stone’s ambiguous parting words – they all echoed in her mind, a symphony of unanswered questions. She had survived, but the journey had just begun, and the shadows of her lineage, and the ever-present threat of the Serpent’s Eye, stretched long and menacing before her.