Chapter 1 - The Arrival

> 1346. The Siege of Caffa.   > The Black Death is not a plague — it is a beginning.   >   > When the Golden Horde hurls their dead over the walls, the city does not fall to disease. It falls to something worse.   >   > The corpses rise.   > They do not scream.   > They feast.   >   > Through the journal of Iskandar, a soldier doomed from the moment he entered the city, the truth behind the first outbreak is revealed — a truth buried by history, and reborn in blood. --- Short Synopsis (Royal Road “Description” Section) This is the longer pitch readers see when they scroll. It should feel like the back cover of a novel. The Siege of Caffa was meant to be a swift victory for the Golden Horde. Instead, it became the birthplace of a horror that would outlive empires. As plague tears through the Mongol camp, bodies are catapulted over the walls in desperation. But inside the city, the dying do not stay dead. They rise with clouded eyes, black blood, and a hunger that no sickness could explain. Iskandar, a weary foot soldier, records the fall of Caffa in his journal — from the first whispers of fever to the moment the dead begin to move. What he discovers inside the silent city is not a battlefield, but a slaughterhouse. And the infection growing beneath his own skin may be the final truth he writes. A historical horror saga blending real events with the birth of an undead plague.   A world where the Black Death is only the first symptom.