Haru the small platinum kobold stands before three glowing fae sentinels in a forest path of crystal flowers. The fairies, radiant yet sorrowful, block his way with crossed wands. Mist glows behind them, suggesting Mother’s unseen power.
Haru faces his reflection in a tall mirror surrounded by arcane runes. His double mimics him perfectly until cracks spread through the glass. Beyond the shards lies a faint outline of a trapped elven woman — Varanestra — reaching out.
Haru strums a lute amid shattered mirrors and swirling light, his music creating ripples of divine energy. Behind him, ethereal fairies hover half-freed, their wings fading into light as Mother’s shadow looms through the portal.
Boris the harengon and Kiet the dragonborn flee down a crumbling stone stairwell as thorned vines chase them like serpents. The temple walls pulse with green light, and Boris’s owl familiar flies ahead holding a faint lantern-glow.
In a dark corridor, Boris faces visions of his lost family while his owl dissolves into smoke above him. Kiet trudges through an endless desert illusion in the same panel — two nightmares separated by a jagged dream-barrier.
Inside a vast underground chamber, a colossal brain floats in a glass vat filled with glowing ichor. Boris and Kiet stand before it as it pulses with psychic energy. Books and scrolls swirl into the air around it like moths to flame.
Virgil, surrounded by towering bioluminescent mushrooms, kneels before ghostly Goliath ancestors emerging from spores. His father’s spirit points accusingly while spectral spores drift through the air like falling snow.
Virgil strikes a spear against a massive amber cocoon glowing gold. Inside, an insect swarm and a tiny mushroom figure strain to escape. Cracks spread outward, releasing tendrils of green-gold light and thousands of fluttering insects.
A single panoramic illustration showing three connected stories unfolding under the shadow of Mother. On the left, Haru the platinum kobold plays his lute before glowing fairies in a lush forest. In the center, Boris the harengon and Kiet the dragonborn flee through vine-choked temple ruins, their owl familiar flying ahead. On the right, Virgil strikes his spear against a massive amber cocoon surrounded by towering mushrooms. All three scenes flow together through shared glowing light and mist, while the looming silhouette of Mother watches from above, her eyes burning with golden power.