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    A child brought into the world silent and still, a body devoid of life until a miraculous revival. Her mother had perished in childbirth and her father had vanished, never to be seen again. In their place Lady Rhea, the archbishop of the Church of Seiros, raised her as her own, for she was closer to this child than anyone could possibly fathom. Rhea had blessed that child with divine purpose, destined to restore light to Fódlan.

    Byleth knew the soul within her body was not her own. It had never been her own. What she understood to be her self was an imagined persona, merely a fragment of a greater whole; an echo of the dormant conscious of the Goddess. She was a vessel. That was her purpose. That was the only truth she knew. Until the day the Ashen Saint saved an enigmatic young woman with a piercing glare. It was in her reflection within those wary lilac eyes that all she knew began to unravel.

    Was she a vessel? An echo of the Goddess? Or had she been denied her humanity? Would this woman who sought to reforge the world prove to be Byleth's salvation? Or would she be her undoing?

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