🎬 Season 2, Episode 4 – Greystone’s Ghosts

Runtime: ~48 minutes

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🌫️ Prologue – Echoes in Stone (3 min)

Thunder rumbles over the crumbling ruins of Greystone Keep, once a fortress-prison for rogue Wardens. Lightning flashes, revealing half-buried gallows and statues of executioners with faceless helms. A chained corpse twitches in the courtyard… and opens its eyes.

From beneath the keep, voices chant in forgotten tongues. A pale light flickers through cracks in the stone. The ghosts of Greystone are waking.

🪨 Act I – Into the Keep (7 min)

Alaric, Lysara, and Seyren arrive at the base of Greystone’s cliff, guided by a lone flamewalker scout. They seek a sigil key, a Warden relic buried within the keep that can open the Cradle of Ash.

The walls groan with pressure. As they step through the gate, snow turns to ash and the sky dims unnaturally. Seyren frowns. “This place is tethered to the Veil. If something went wrong here… it never truly ended.”

They press forward, unaware they’re being watched from the ramparts.

👻 Act II – The Gallows Choir (8 min)

Inside, they find the Chamber of Tongues, a chapel-turned-torture hall. Choir stalls line the walls, filled with whispering spirits. The warden’s bell tolls by itself. Ghosts begin to sing, not in harmony, but in accusation.

“Traitor. Oathbreaker. Flamebearer. Witchborn.”

One by one, Alaric and the others relive moments of shame:

• Alaric stands again at the pyre in Vaelor, but this time the girl’s eyes burn gold, his failure, multiplied.
• Lysara sees her sister’s face fade into smoke, whispering, “You lit the match.”
• Seyren sees himself not casting magic, but being dissected for it.

They break the trance only by touching their shared relics, the mirror shard, the flame key, Noctharis.

🧱 Act III – Prison of Memory (7 min)

In the lower levels, they discover rows of iron coffins. One is still sealed, marked with the crest of House Vayne. Alaric pries it open and finds Ser Calros Vayne, his great-uncle, preserved unnaturally.

His eyes open. “Did they send you to finish me… or free me?” Calros claims he knew the truth about Velkaeth, and was imprisoned for it.

Lysara warns, “He reeks of shadebinding.” Calros offers them the sigil key, if they hear his tale. They agree.

🕯️ Act IV – The Betrayal Record (6 min)

In a hidden scriptorium, Calros reveals a bound book of living ink, The Warden’s Last Record. Within it are prophecies about Velkaeth, but more importantly, truths about the Wardens’ founding:

• They weren’t created to protect the realm, but to imprison something.
• Alaric’s bloodline was chosen as a failsafe, a living lock.

“You were never meant to lead, Alaric,” Calros says. “You were meant to die sealing the breach.” Alaric refuses his destiny. “Then I will make a new one.”

⚔️ Act V – The Ghost Rebellion (7 min)

Calros tries to sway Seyren with knowledge. “You are unmade. You have no past. Join me, and you’ll know everything.” Seyren casts a binding ward, saying, “I’m not a page to be written by another hand.”

Calros reveals his true form, a Shadebound Revenant, half-ghost, half-corpse, eyes bleeding ink. The spirits in the keep rise, now bearing armor and Warden blades, possessed by shadeflame.

A fierce battle ensues. Alaric duels Calros among collapsing pillars, blade against blade. Noctharis drinks ghostlight. Lysara casts a sigil that ignites the coffins, releasing trapped spirits in a burst of cleansing flame.

Alaric drives his blade through Calros’s chest. “I am not your key.”

🎵 Final Montage (4 min)

• Greystone collapses in on itself. From the ruin, the sigil key glows and flies into Lysara’s hand.
• Seyren examines the Warden’s Last Record and finds his name etched across every page, then watches it fade.
• Alaric stares at the falling snow, thinking it ash. “The ghosts are gone. But the chains remain.”
• High above, Velkaeth watches through a veil of starlight. “They break what binds. Good.”

📜 End Credits – Episode 4: Greystone’s Ghosts

The past speaks louder than the present in the North, and the Wardens’ legacy is darker than any imagined. Alaric holds a key forged in betrayal, but the gate it opens may be worse than anything sealed behind it.

The Shadow of Eldros: Blades of the Void continues.