Ash Wildroot

EVERGROVE • From the Light of Luceryn

A Kingdom Born From Radiance and Rooted in Destiny

Few realms in The Fractured Star Chronicles carry a history as ancient or awe-striking as Evergrove, the luminous kingdom forged from the fall of Luceryn, the Dragon of Light. When she descended in the First Sundering, her radiant scales shattered across the land. Her divine energy seeped into the soil and awakened something entirely new.

What rose from her sacrifice was not desolation.
It was life.

The Birth of Evergrove

Legends say that when Luceryn’s spirit burst free in a final blaze of brilliance, the earth absorbed her light like water. By morning, an entire forest had erupted into existence. Trees grew to towering heights in a single night. Leaves gleamed with impossible colors. Gold. Silver. Amber. Jade. Soft white.

Evergrove became a land where dawn never fully fades and the air carries a gentle, shimmering glow.

Creatures adapted to the radiance as well. People speak of the lumin-elk whose antlers refract starlight, the lantern-foxes whose fur glimmers at twilight, and the firefly serpents that slide through the underbrush like ribbons of living light.

At the center of the kingdom stands its heart.

The Heartroot Tree

The Heartroot Tree is the oldest living thing in existence. It formed from Luceryn’s luminous scales, fused together by ancient magic. Its roots pulse with soft golden and emerald light. Some claim the tree holds the first memory of the world, and that the earth listens when it speaks.

Auroralyn • Jewel of the Lightborn Kingdom

Rising from this radiant soil is Auroralyn, a capital city carved from dawn. Its marble towers shimmer with shifting color as sunlight refracts through enchanted windows. Crystal bridges arc over quiet gardens. Suncrystal lamps illuminate every path at night, creating a city that seems touched by the sky itself.

Auroralyn is not only beautiful. It represents the kingdom’s soul. It is the home of the Dawnchild. It is the seat of the Heartroot Council. And it is the birthplace of two girls whose destinies will shape the entire saga.

The Night of the Red Comet • Two Children Born

On the night of the Red Comet, omens erupted across the land. Bells rang without hands. Candles flickered into strange colors. Priests claimed visions from Luceryn herself. To them, the comet signaled one truth.

A child of destiny had arrived.

They were partially right. What they did not realize is that destiny had chosen two.

The Birth of Princess Lyrianna

Princess Lyrianna Aeloria Valewyn was born in the highest chamber of the palace. Golden light filled the room. The priests called her the Dawnchild. They believed she was the one foretold to rise when the realms grew dark. Every prophecy seemed to point toward her radiance.

The Birth of Elara

Across the palace, in a quiet servant’s chamber, another child entered the world. When she drew her first breath, every candle went out. Shadows trembled across the floor. The air stilled as if waiting.

Her name was Elara.

No priest recorded her birth. No ceremony welcomed her. She was marked only by silence and the soft curl of darkness that gathered at her feet.

The palace believed the prophecy belonged to the princess alone. They believed only one child mattered.

The prophecy itself tells another story.
It speaks softly of a second child.
It whispers of a shadow that will one day save the world.

Elara grew up in hiding.
Lyrianna grew up in ceremony.
Yet their fates were never separate.

Evergrove Today • A Kingdom Shifting

In the present timeline of the saga, Evergrove remains a land of beauty. But beneath the roots lies unrest. A strange blight has begun to appear at the forest edges. Sacred beasts grow uneasy. The Heartroot Tree pulses with warning light as ancient dangers stir.

The comet has returned.
The cycle repeats.
And Evergrove begins to fracture around the two girls it once ignored and worshiped in equal measure.

Light is no longer certain.
Shadow is no longer silent.
The prophecy begins to reveal the truth it kept hidden for fourteen years.

Why Evergrove Matters in the Saga

Evergrove represents the bright side of a world shaped by the fall of dragons. It mirrors Emberfall, a land created by fire rather than light. It is the origin of Lyrianna, a girl raised to believe she is the chosen one. It is also the birthplace of Elara, a girl the world never expected.

As their stories unfold, Evergrove becomes the stage where prophecy, politics, and ancient magic collide. The kingdom will test their loyalty, their courage, and the fragile bond that ties them together.

Evergrove asks one question.
Destiny answers with another.

Does salvation belong only to the child of light
or also to the child of shadow.