Urban FantasyAnti-Hero LeadGrimdarkPsychologicalMultiple Lead Characters
There is a door at the back of the mind, the last door you’ll ever go through. It leads to a sacred passage into the Aestrum, the primordial current where all life originates. Yet a terrible cataclysm changed the course of fate, bringing forth an invasive realm of unliving atrocities that has severed our journey to the afterlife. This realm tears through the veil into reality, rampant and inexorable, leaving mankind scarce and civilisations scattered. Only a cunning few survivors can glean any knowledge of their intangible existence.
Three desperate outcasts have paid a steep price for these lessons. Bound by trauma, they converge, unaware of their single, impossible purpose: to reclaim life’s natural order. Rona, a scavenger defined by her tenacious will to live, seeks the answers to her past. Marquis, a deserter, is left with only his oaths to his family and his faith. Valen, an immortal man who's losing his humanity to the very atrocities he survived.
Their inevitable paths lead to locked doors, guarded by the devouring void. In a world where the sacred passage to the Aestrum is closed, they are the only hope to find the key or be consumed by the devouring void.