
✨ Cogheart: The First Whisper of The City ✨
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There are ruins in the Faewilde—moss-covered towers, sunken courts, forgotten bridges where ivy grows thicker than stone. But deeper still, beneath root and river, lies a place unlike any other. The Fair Folk call it The City.
It is not a place of wood and stone, but of iron and fire. A labyrinth of halls and chimneys, gears and glass, silent since time immemorial. No smoke drifts from its towers. No footsteps echo in its streets. The machines are cold, the forges dark—yet nothing has rusted, nothing broken. It is as though the City simply… stopped. Preserved. Waiting.
And sometimes, the waiting ends.
The necklace known as Cogheart was found in one of those chambers—an artifact pieced from garnet and bloodstone, threaded with the rhythm of gears, and crowned with a key wrought of cog and wheel. To wear it is to carry a fragment of The City’s heart: a symbol of endurance forged in silence, and of passion that still burns beneath steel.
Garnet is the ember stone, a guardian of vitality and courage. Bloodstone grounds its wearer with resilience and strength. Together, they embody the balance of The City itself—power tempered by patience, fire bound to stone. A reminder that even in places long abandoned, the heart endures.
What does the key unlock? Perhaps nothing at all. Perhaps everything. In The City, every door has a purpose, and every lock a secret. Maybe Cogheart is not a key but a memory—of the lives who once shaped a world from iron and magic. Or maybe it is the beginning of something still turning, deep beneath the silence.
Whether worn as adornment or as talisman, Cogheart belongs to those who dare to walk between worlds: the wild and the worked, the living and the long-forgotten. It is a promise that even in ruins, beauty survives.
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