🎬 Season 3, Episode 1 – The Shattered Road

Runtime: ~58 minutes

Read the summary of these series here: Witcher Fans, Prepare Yourselves, Cavill’s New Fantasy Project Goes Even Darker

🌍 Prologue – Fracture of the World (4 min)

A low hum rises from the core of Eldros. Across the continent, fissures tear through sacred mountains and ancient forests. Rivers reverse. Stars flicker in daytime. In Vaelor, the grand spire crumbles mid-chant as its roots are swallowed into a rift.

Alaric and Lysara ride past a crumbling viaduct, watching time fold backward, birds flying in reverse, blood unspilling from a battlefield. "The world is cracking," Lysara whispers. "Like porcelain forgotten by the gods."

⏳ Act I – Temple of Stillness (8 min)

Deep within the Rift of Names, Alaric finds a temple suspended in a time-loop. Within its crystalline halls, a solitary monk, Elthar, has aged and de-aged endlessly for centuries. "Time bleeds," Elthar says. "You have seen it. But now you must see what comes after."

Elthar leads Alaric to a mirrored pool known as the Moment’s Edge. The reflection does not show the present, but the future.

Alaric sees a battlefield drowned in voidlight. Lysara lies motionless, flame extinguished. His own body crowned with a halo of obsidian fire. He gasps. "No..."

Elthar warns: "Visions are not fate. They are warnings. You must find the final Seal. Before this reflection becomes truth."

⚙️ Act II – Echoes of the Ley (9 min)

The road out of the Rift is worse than the entry. Time loops rewind the group’s steps. Earthquakes rip open ruins they already passed. Seyren activates a ley-compass, guiding them toward stable points of reality, but even he falters.

A memory-wraith attacks, an echo of Alaric’s past self, forged from guilt and doubt. They fight beside a fractured waterfall, flowing in three directions at once. Alaric defeats it by accepting the memory, not striking it. "You were me. But you are not now."

The path forward is opened: a shard of blue flame points east, toward the Gloaming Wastes, where the final Seal is rumored to lie buried beneath centuries of cursed silence.

💔 Act III – Fires of Doubt (6 min)

Camped beside a river of glass, Lysara questions the vision. "Was it true? That I die?" Alaric hesitates. "It was... one possibility."

"Then we change it," she says. Her voice steady. "We burn that path down."

Alaric looks to the stars, now scattered like shattered jewels. "Every step forward now costs more than the last."

⚔️ Act IV – Blood Tithes (7 min)

The party arrives at the Broken Causeway, a floating road of stone platforms drifting in fractured time. Each platform demands payment, memories, blood, or years. Seyren offers a song from his youth. Lysara gives a lock of flamehair. Alaric steps forward and bleeds into the stone.

Ghosts of past Wardens appear and ask: "Will you die to save those not yet born?" Alaric nods. "I’ll die twice, if it ends him."

The path aligns, and they cross to the Gloaming.

🎵 Final Montage (4 min)

• The Citadel of the Dominion glows with black auroras.
• A child with a voice not his own speaks a prophecy backward.
• The flamecrown flickers violently as Lysara looks into the east and begins to cry, for a future only she remembers.
• Alaric whispers to Solrend, “Don’t let me become him.”

📜 End Credits – Episode 1: The Shattered Road

The final journey begins not in certainty, but in tremors, of ground, of soul, of time. Alaric and his companions walk a path that does not wish to be walked. Ahead lies the Seal. Behind them, time unravels.

The Shadow of Eldros: Twilight of the Wardens continues.