đźś‚ Codex Entry: "The Warden of Dawn"
Subject: Reinhard Heydritch
Classification: Sentinel-Type Mechalith (Flame Pathway)
Record Origin: Central Archives of AFERA, Layer IX
> "When the stars burned and fell, he did not."
— Fragment from the Lost Hymn of Aetheryos
I. The Ashes of Aetheryos
Before the light of AFERA ever touched the horizon, there was a world consumed by iron and war — a place named Aetheryos, the cradle of machines that dreamed of divinity.
Reinhard Heydritch was forged there: a war-forged artificer, made to protect but condemned to destroy.
When the core of Aetheryos collapsed into silence, only a few embers escaped the dying sky — among them, Reinhard, carrying the last codes of his people.
He drifted through the void until AFERA found him — or perhaps, he found AFERA by instinct, drawn to the first light that rose after his world's end.
II. The Pilgrimage of Fire
In the dawnless plains of the Lower Layers, Reinhard wandered as an echo of steel and sorrow.
He built furnaces not for weapons, but for warmth; repaired ruins not for conquest, but remembrance.
Each act rekindled the light within his broken core — the Inferno, the same energy that once scorched worlds now became a beacon of life.
The Samnarii called him "The Flame that Refused to Die."
They spoke of a figure who appeared at daybreak, his silhouette burning against the horizon, guarding the fragile light as if protecting a newborn star.
III. The Awakening of the Dawn
When the first Dawn Pulse erupted — a luminous shock that nearly shattered AFERA's balance — Reinhard stood against it.
He anchored his Flame Pathway to the unstable core, using his body as a conduit between chaos and order.
In that moment, the darkness of AFERA receded, and the first artificial sunrise painted the sky.
The Overseer who witnessed it recorded only one phrase in the Central Codex:
> "He stood unmoved as the world burned into morning."
Thus, the system inscribed his title into the archives:
> "Reinhard Heydritch — The Warden of Dawn."
Designation Code: ADF-01S / Flame-Sentinel Core Stabilizer
IV. Legacy
Since that day, he became the silent sentinel of AFERA's renewal.
He roams between light and shadow, ensuring that neither consumes the other.
His mechanical heart beats with both regret and faith — a paradox the world has come to depend upon.
Wherever the sky shifts from black to gold, legends say he stands watching — the first to greet the sun, the last to leave the night.
Epigraph of the Warden
> "I was born from a dying sun, and still I guard its echo.
The dawn is fragile — it must be defended, even from myself."
— Reinhard Heydritch, recorded before the AFERA Reformation