"Could that Demon have learned about the weapon from an even more ancient era? After all, we haven't lived here since the Mythical Epoch."
Claire made another guess, but Shade shook his head.
"I learned about Black Hand-Tifron from a book called Collection of Soul Stories. That book was a relic left behind by an old professor in Vesta Woodland. It recorded that the Demon of Weapons was sealed during the Third Epoch. Following the clues, I later traveled to Winterfell, a city in the Far North of Delarion, and found the place where it had been sealed within the glaciers north of Winterfell."
This was the first time Shade had explained the Demon's origins in such detail. Of course, the experience of traveling through the North had actually belonged to the Doctor.
"Judging from the traces, Black Hand-Tifron should have escaped its seal early in this epoch, no later than the year 700 of the Sixth Epoch. It had been sealed far too early. Even if it knew about the so-called weapon before being sealed, it was unlikely to be so certain that the weapon was still here in the present day of the Sixth Epoch.
It has been roughly a thousand years since it escaped the seal. I would rather believe that it learned certain things during those thousand years, which was why it came to Fatumonst Island."
The Elders would arrange for people to search through the tribe's records again for clues. As for Shade, he already had many things to look for on the island: the Temple of Fate, the key to the castle, and the First Fire. Perhaps the weapon meant to break the shackles was located together with one of the places or items Shade sought. Or perhaps it was somewhere entirely new.
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