The howls, the shrieks filled the cavernous silence with dread.

Claws screeching against stone, wings beating the stale air, jaws snapping with hunger: the horde was near, there was no escape.

They had been enemies once, divided by creed and blood, and yet here, at the edge of all things, they had learned to see past the walls that held them apart.

In him, she had felt a warmth she thought forever lost; in her, he had glimpsed a truth beyond the order's fanatical oaths.

"I don't want to die" whispered Iensi.

It had all come too late. The road ahead ended here.

But they were not alone. They found each other and, in that final moment, they understood: even a brief light was worth carrying into the darkness.

Aaron, a young paladin of the fanatical Order of Salvation, was stationed on the borderlands to guard against the demon threat.

When his brothers abandoned the outpost, he was left to face the darkness alone. It was then that he crossed paths with Iensi, the half-demon outcast he had been taught to hate.

Reluctantly, he joined forces with the half-demon, on his quest to end the demon threat.

Necessity bound them together, and along the road they learned to look past the scars and their symbols.

However, what awaited them in the demon lair was a trap, sprung by a demon that had long hunted Iensi.

Yet the lair held more than a snare — it was the very ground where, centuries before, Revna had opened the Gates of Hell.

Within those cursed halls, together, Aaron and Iensi struck down horrors and sealed the spawning portals, knowing there would be no return.

This quest would be the end of their journey.

In time, however, whispers would spread of a lone hunter walking the night with a purpose greater than vengeance, a looming shadow over the Dark Queen's demise.