High atop the frigid peaks of Stellentia stands the Temple of Starlight. Should the cold and treacherous climb fail to deter trespassers, the temple’s guardians await.
These creatures have no name, no tongue, and no memory of who they once were. Some say they were once angelic stewards, sculpted in the image of the divine and placed to watch over the temple in an ancient age. Others claim they were pilgrims who climbed the mountain in pursuit of the divine light, only to be unmade and reshaped by it. Whatever the truth, time has scoured their origin. Only their compulsion remains.
Drawn to the Starlit Scepter, they prowl the temple grounds without rest or reason. They do not understand the relic’s power, nor do they seek to wield it. They seek only to guard it, and to bask in its light in endless penance for sins they cannot remember.
Now twisted into monstrous forms, clad in leathers leftover from previous lives, and wielding brutish weapons fit for their forms, they lash out in mindless rage against any who might attempt to claim the Scepter as their own.
They are the keepers of the light they will never touch.
They are the damned, eternally vigilant.
They are the nameless guardians of the Temple of Starlight.
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