Prologue – From the Codex of Embers

(Fragment Recovered, Date Unknown)

They called it a flame, but it did not burn.

It whispered. It watched. It remembered.

The witches of the shadowed flame were not Sith, nor Jedi, nor anything the Republic could name. They did not serve. They did not kneel. They kept.

One bore the Mourning Face, and saw the loss before it came. One walked with the nameless one, and heard a sister’s cry across the stars. One came from the ash, and carried fire where none had been.

When the Force itself trembles, they say the Keepers shall rise again. Not to rule. Not to save.

To remind the galaxy what it chose to forget.

– Fragment 11, “Codex of Embers” (Purged from Jedi Archives, Entry Redacted)