In Ulduar's Celestial Planetarium, the returned World Manager gazed at the firmament overhead.
The earthen servants walking outside the hall went about their work carefully, with far more precision than their usual clumsiness, seemingly afraid of making any sound they should not. There was some panic on the faces of these earthen who had volunteered to work in Ulduar. Clearly, they had never encountered the current situation before.
Compared with the previous masters of Titans City, Dick clearly had a more mortal disposition. Though he rarely grew angry, that only made his anger all the more frightening.
The master of Titans City had returned, and his mood was terrible, causing even the flow of air throughout the city to stagnate. The other Guardians attended to their duties. Reportedly, large numbers of the Iron Burning Legion were being awakened at the restored Training Grounds.
The Guardians, who had not taken to the battlefield since the Ancient Elements War, were gathering at Ignis the Forge Master's place to repair their armor and maintain their weapons. Clearly, a war was about to begin.
Before that, however, the paladin needed to meet a guest.
Odyn... master of the spirits, war leader of the Guardians, and the one responsible for temporarily managing the world while Dick was away from Azeroth.
The one-eyed giant had shrunk his body. Dressed in a white robe and leaning on the silver Spear of Judgment, he strode along the Starlight Walkway inside Ulduar. It had been a long time since he last came here.
In truth, for this High Steward, the world had changed far too drastically after the Titans departed. The impression Ulduar, the symbol of the Guardians, had left on him could hardly be called good.
Unity and division, kinship and betrayal, freedom and imprisonment, and those memories