I am the only of my kind to venture so far. I used to provide freedom-golden age?, but now I am only a reminder of slavery-darkness age. When you venture through the flames into my domain -vex gates?, Beware. -The mass of shattered warriors will crawl out from the schisms, to swallow light and life.-hive? I remain balanced, where I belong-battle of good vs evil?. I have been gutted open-underside of traveler, my veins cut and weak.-weakness of the traveler?I am left to rot, hanging to my past-self-??? by these strings of curses -bad ju-ju Just trying to dissect the riddle for a solution Edit: has this helped anyone cause I'm trying to figure it out Edit: go ahead and add any ideas you have to this to try to make this a guide for the riddle