The Enigma of House Davion's Celestial Oracle
The Vanishing of the Celestial Oracle: A Flame Without a Beacon
For generations, the Celestial Oracle of House Davion served as both spiritual guide and strategic adviser—a living conduit to prophecy, insight, and divine arcana. Stationed within the alabaster spires of the Oracle’s Enclave on New Avalon, she spoke not only of the future but of purpose, vision, and the burdens of leadership. Her words shaped treaties, tempered ambition, and warned of threats long before they surfaced. So when she vanished without a trace, the entire Federated Suns trembled.
The Oracle, known to the inner court as Selene Valaryn, disappeared during a quiet midnight vigil. Her chambers were found undisturbed. No doors were breached, and no wards were triggered. Only a single glass sphere, its light extinguished, was left upon her reading table. The stars overhead—visible through the enchanted skylight—were said to have flickered and danced in silence for a full minute before the palace guards realized she was gone.
Publicly, the Archon-Prince’s court declared a temporary mourning and launched an exhaustive investigation. Inwardly, however, House Davion was thrown into spiritual and political disarray. Selene’s final recorded visions had been troubling—fragmented warnings of a sun swallowed by its shadow, voices beneath the stone, and truths cloaked in scripture. Her private scrolls, many sealed and marked with prophecy sigils, were discovered partially scorched, as if by divine fire or deliberate purging.
The truth, unknown to the court and buried even within the Davion intelligence archives, is far darker.
Today, the public presumes the Oracle dead, her loss memorialized in haunting songs and carved onto the walls of the Oracle’s Tower. But deep in the shadows of the Sphere, in secret libraries and stolen divinations, her name still appears—not as a martyr but as a prisoner of purpose. House Davion lost more than a prophet that night. It lost its compass—and perhaps, its warning.
“When the stars go silent, it is not because they have nothing to say. It is because someone does not want them to be heard.” — Attributed to Selene Valaryn, Final Prophecy Scroll, partially burned
