ExU: Divergence is a four-episode mini series that follows everyday folks picking up the pieces of their world in the wake of a cataclysmic war between the gods. As the dust settles, the mortals of Exandria discover how their world has been changed forever.

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5h 10m 2h 12m

ExU: Divergence | Part 4

“By Heart Alone”

Rising up it’s eastern side, illuminated by the faintest early rays of dawn light. Its western edge still lavender and indigo; the snow and stone facing the receding night in the west.
The mountain knows heaven’s stare, here in the lands of Yssilra.
The city of Vasselheim.
This city awakens in a new day. Having seen the dawning of yet another age, walls (the outer edge shattered and laid low, sundered by the blows of gods themselves) scatter here and yet the city stands.
Vasselheim, the Dawn City.
It had seen the Founding, the clashes of the Schism, the heights of the Age of Arcanum. In these streets at one point fell the footsteps of Vespin Chloras (who would call the Calamity upon the world and those long centuries of ruin would the Dawn City weather and survive). And now yet another age comes to this eternal place where mortals walk hand in hand, arm in arm, knowing that a new day has come to Exandria.
Carts move hither and to. You see the muddy unpaved streets (in some ways this city harkens back to all of the older ages of its long long life), massive masonry blocks of stone (the buildings of this place, even the ones that aren’t temples have a feeling of reverence and adoration), everything here is built to last. Even the rubble has some solemnity and gravity to it, here in this place.
As you approach, having traveled for days across stormy seas, all the way to the city of Seagate, and then some thirty miles inland to the city of Vasselheim. Taking in the thousands upon thousands of people that call this place home (seeing a structure that dwarfs Rybad-Kol many times over), the vast neighborhoods and temples towering (a place that has been protected for so long by the Prime Deities), and you see a people. Humans, elves, dwarves (the vast and sundried peoples of Exandria) and a feeling here of panic, but the kind of panic that precedes both hope and despair.
Something is changing.

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