Author’s Note
These is not neutral accounts. The Obsidian Gates was written by Emilia Glazkov many years after the events it describes, when the truth had already begun to fracture. At the time of writing, she is older, fluent, and dangerously self-aware. The voice you’ll read is hers—refined by time, sharpened by belief—but she is recounting the early days, before the cult called the Black Rainbow took shape. Before the world changed. And while she tells it all as memory, make no mistake: this is still scripture.




In Gate IX, the Black Rainbow reconvenes beneath the Vale. Fresh off their championship victory, Emilia is summoned by Maraeth to reflect on past failures, vanished allies, and a timeline gone sideways. In a chamber stitched from memory and flesh, the truth is named: Maraeth will return. A new mind will be taken. And the reckoning begins on August 4th. This is not a celebration. It is a correction. And it will not be denied a second time.