Remnant - CRK

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They were not born monsters.

They were Virtues - living ideals shaped by the Witches to guide Earthbread: Knowledge that told the truth no one wanted to hear, Change that refused stagnation, Happiness that burned too brightly, Volition that answered every wish, and Solidarity that stood when all else fell. Each carried a Soul Jam that spoke, advised, and believed in them.

And each one broke.

Eons after their corruption, the Beasts live in an uneasy peace-freed from the Silver Tree, bound by fragile truces with their Ancient counterparts, and tied together by history they refuse to name. They gather, they clash, they endure. They love. They destroy. They pretend the past is dead.

It isn't.

Within their Soul Jams, something stirs.

What once guided them has twisted into something cruel-conscious reflections of the very ideals they abandoned. These entities do not seek conquest or redemption. They exist to remember, to mock, and to force the Beasts to face what they buried beneath deceit, destruction, apathy, sloth, and silence.

Each Beast will be hunted not by an enemy, but by themselves-by the truth of why they fell, by the vulnerability they rejected, and by the fear that their corruption was never a mistake, only a choice.

This is not a story about salvation.

It is a story about power, guilt, and identity-about what remains when virtues rot, and whether a monster can survive meeting the part of itself that still remembers what it was meant to be.

Because the Soul Jams were never silent.

They were only waiting.