Once, Krotah swore an oath to Bahamut.The world remembers what came after.Forged in the legendary dragonborn armies of Mandrovia, Krotah was a lawful hero-disciplined, devout, and unbreakable. Then he was captured. Tortured. Erased. When the world abandoned him, he abandoned his god in return, turning to the Dragon Queen Tiamat not for salvation, but for truth.Killed on an unremarkable day and left unmourned, Krotah returned changed. No longer bound by mortality, he reforged himself through distributed immortality-anchoring his soul to a growing inner circle known as the Dark Order. From the fires of Avernus, he rose not as a lich, nor a tyrant, but as something far more dangerous: a constant.As relics are claimed, towers raised, and institutions falter, the world slowly realizes that Tiamat's freedom will not be decided by gods alone. Scholars fall silent. Orders recalibrate. Hell itself adapts. To reach the Dragon Queen, one must first pass through her Highlord.Hunted by his former brother-in-arms, watched by fearful archivists, and burdened by the cost of permanence, Krotah becomes the gatekeeper of a future the world is no longer certain it wants-but can no longer prevent.This is not the story of a fall.It is the story of what remains when removal is no longer possible.