Mortal Mother, The Phoenix Betrayal

On the day Father brought Lady Helena into Radiant Hall, Mother danced along the bank of Cloudveil River.

Everyone said Mother was fortunate. She was merely a mortal woman, yet the supreme God of War had promised to spend his entire eternity with her.

Still, Mother once told me: “A woman should never demean herself. No matter who your father is, if he ever betrays me, I will return to my mortal realm and never see him again.”

Guided by her teachings, I married High Sovereign Lysander. We carv