Prologue The Codex Speaks
Y ou are reading this because something has already changed in you. The lie has worn thin.
Perhaps it arrived as a feeling: a wrongness at the edge of perception, a suspicion that the story had missing pages. Perhaps you saw something that your version of reality couldn’t reconcile, and rather than blink it away, you stared back.
This is not a coincidence. And this is not fiction.
The document you read is an excerpt of the Sundered Codex. It is a living record maintained across the ages by those charged with remembering what the world was forced to forget. It is incomplete by design. What you can access now is what your mind can currently bear. As you move deeper into the true account of the world, new entries will surface. The Codex grows with the one who carries it.
We do not ask you to believe what follows. Belief is a door. It is you who must pass the threshold.