You awake with a head-splitting migraine, the chilling wind singing in your ears. What little heat still remains slowly seeps out of your body as the crystalline pavement beneath you leeches onto you like a changeling. The City is deathly quiet, the atmosphere hauntingly similar to that of Sombra's tyrannical reign.
Memories flash through your mind's eye, and suddenly everything is clear. You are Captain of the Crystal Guard, and you will see to it that your people are safe.
Hoofsteps echo across the barren streets, a gaggle of guards galloping towards you, eyes wide, they stand at rapt attention.
There is much work to be done.
When the lost city returned to the face of the world, some were awed, others stupefied, and some... some were horrified.
And yet, all of them carried a single question: What happened to the Crystal Empire when it disappeared?
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