Arion, The Shattered

Arion, The Shattered is not a person, but the theological concept detailing the psychic fragmentation of the renowned Arion, the Stargazer in his final moments of apocalyptic foresight. This lore states that Arion’s mind, overloaded by the vision of the coming Celestial Collapse, splintered into a thousand fearful whispers that now circulate as dogma among the disillusioned. It is fundamentally a philosophy of fatalism. This belief system emerged robustly during the bleak Age of Vellum, a period when organized prophetic knowledge was widely rejected in favor of despair. The lore focuses heavily on the corruption of the celestial cycles, detailing how the seven moons aligned not to grant power, but to signal the definitive cosmic breaking

—an event adherents term The Sundered Sign. Followers assert that the relentless pursuit and harnessing of Auric Resonance was always a mortal mistake, serving only to attract destructive entities like the parasitic Star-Eaters to consume the dregs of our world. This preserved record is not truth, but a chilling testament to complete hopelessness, mandated for the Abbey's psychological catalog of ruin.