Deepwoken Earth Piercer [2021] Page

So Harran did what Earth Piercers were made to do. He placed his palm on the living rock. He sang the mantra not as a shout, but as a whisper: “Break not the earth. Pierce the lie.”

At the center of the slick cobblestones lay a fragment of a monument—a broken slab of dark stone, carved with a single, unmistakable symbol: a downward spike piercing three concentric rings. The mark of the Earth Piercer . deepwoken earth piercer

Soryn laughed—a hollow, wet sound. “Boy, the Depths are kinder than what you’ll find down there. The Church’s ghosts don’t forgive.” So Harran did what Earth Piercers were made to do

And then the vision swallowed him. He was standing on a cliff that no longer existed, in a time when the Song of the world was still untarnished. Before the depths rose. Before the greys. He wore not his own body, but that of a giant—a Deepwoken of impossible attunement, his flesh woven with stone and root. His name was Harran the Sunderer . Pierce the lie

Kaelen knelt anyway, running a gloved finger over the cold stone. A pulse answered him. Not magic— memory .