Two weeks after the convergence, the carefully maintained equilibrium that the Celestial Academy had achieved began showing signs of strain. Not dramatic fractures that announced themselves through violence or obvious disruption. Rather, the subtle cracks that appeared when systems established across countless generations encountered challenges that those systems had never been designed to address.
The problem manifested first within the Spirit Hall's archive, where Liora's reorganization of historical records continued according to celestial patterns that only someone bearing the Compass authority could fully comprehend. What had initially appeared as elegant organization began revealing uncomfortable truths about how history had been deliberately distorted or selectively preserved.
