Should we explore how the reacted to their new, "low-res" world, or shall we follow Elias as he descends from the spires ?
The sky didn't go dark. It just... softened. The harsh, neon perfections of the Wake of LightHD began to bleed into watercolors. The jagged, perfect edges of the skyscrapers blurred into the clouds. Across Aethelgard, people stopped. They looked at their hands, seeing the honest lines of their palms for the first time in a generation. The Wake of LightHD
Elias reached out, but as his hand entered the sparrow's space, the LightHD aura around his glove vanished. He saw his own skin: scarred, wrinkled, and pale. It wasn't the airbrushed, glowing perfection the veil usually showed him. It was real. Should we explore how the reacted to their
Elias was a "Prism-Scavenger," one of the few who still remembered the Soft Blur—the era before the veil was cast. His job was to scale the gleaming spires of the city to buff the emitters that maintained the LightHD. softened