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by Ashes_Primis
A six-year-old boy eats the Dragon of Fate. It takes him hours. This is the story of how he got there, and of what crawled back out. In the forgotten village of Coava, Constentiam Tenemort is the last-born of a cursed family, where every name is a death sentence and every life a slow walk toward the way it ends. His father will die by wrath. His mother by love. His brother by light. And Constentiam himself bears upon his chest the complete Mark of Ashe, a divine sigil that bleeds gold when the soul beneath it suffers. Magic here is written. He can't read it. He looks at the trees when he can't look at people anymore. The trees don't judge him, and they don't hurt him. But something older than the gods is watching him. Something that has watched him before, and before that, and before that again. From ashes he was born. To ashes, inexorably, he shall return. Dark fantasy, seinen. For readers of Berserk, Re:Zero and Made in Abyss. Written in French, translated chapter by chapter. Book I, Genesis of a Forgotten World, is complete. A new chapter goes up every week. What to Expect The Architecture of a Tragedy. A tragedy built beam by beam from a single broken childhood. A home made of fear and ruin, a world where the people, the magic, and the gods all lean toward the same end. Here, everything wants you dead. A Psychological Descent. A character study before anything else. A dual hell: a father whose footsteps he learns to dread, and a magic academy where children are expected to die. His life shatters, and shatters again, and still he asks why. Beauty Wearing the Skin of Horror. He survives atrocity by turning it into art — blood read as pigment, a corpse seen as a finished canvas. Told in metaphor rather than exposition, in a mythology steeped in Latin that assembles itself only for the patient reader. No Plot Armor. When the story promises a death, it keeps that promise. Content Warning. Grimdark seinen, 18+. Child abuse, violence, despair — there because the story needs them.
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| 1 | Chapter 1 — It Will Be You and Me | 0 |
| 2 | Chapter 1.1 — The Family | 0 |
| 3 | Chapter 1.2 — In the Cold Night of Boredom | 0 |
| 4 | Chapter 1.3 — The Cave | 0 |
| 5 | Chapter 1.3.1 — The Wait and the Tomb | 0 |
| 6 | Chapter 1.3.2 — Impulse | 0 |
| 7 | Chapter 1.4 — Origo Mortalis | 0 |
| 8 | Chapter 1.4.1 — Origo Fati | 0 |
| 9 | Chapter 1.4.2 — Origo Mortifera | 0 |
| 10 | Chapter 1.4.3 — Origo Mortis | 0 |
| 11 | Chapter 1.4.4 — Origo Finis | 0 |
| 12 | Chapter 1.4.5 — Origo Nativitas | 0 |
| 13 | Chapter 1.5 — An Erasure | 0 |
| 14 | Chapter 2 — A Renewal? (Bear Story I) | 0 |
| 15 | Chapter 2.1 — Pretenses | 0 |
| 16 | Chapter 2.2 — The Village of Coava | 0 |
| 17 | Chapter 2.3 — Hell Is Other People! | 0 |
| 18 | Chapter 2.4 — Primus ex Primo | 0 |
| 19 | Chapter 2.5 — The Entrance to the Dwelling | 0 |
| 20 | Chapter 2.6 — The Dwelling | 0 |
| 21 | Chapter 2.7 — The Runes | 0 |
| 22 | Chapter 2.7.1 — Dead Language | 0 |
| 23 | Chapter 2.8 —You can't choose your family | 0 |
| 24 | Chapter 2.8.1 — Apparition | 0 |
| 25 | Chapter 2.8.2 — The Rapétier | 0 |
| 26 | Chapter 2.9 — First Combat | 0 |
| 27 | Chapter 2.9.1 — Vile | 0 |
| 28 | Chapter 2.9.2 — Hard Lessons | 0 |
| 29 | Chapter X.X.X.X.X.X... — Blue Filter | 0 |
| 30 | Chapter 2.9.3 — Watercourse | 0 |
| 31 | Chapter 2.9.4 — Words | 0 |
| 32 | Chapter 3.0 — Primus Test | 0 |
| 33 | Chapter 3.1 — Primus Test, Forest of Coava, Rursus (1/3) | 0 |
| 34 | Chapter 3.2 — Primus Test, Forest of Coava, Rursus (2/3) | 0 |
| 35 | Chapter 3.3 — Primus Test, Forest of Coava, Rursus (3/3) | 0 |
| 36 | Author's Note — Updated Fiction Page | 0 |
| 37 | Chapter 3.4 — Nihilith Child (1/2) | 0 |
| 38 | Chapter 3.4.1— Nihilith Child (2/2) | 0 |
| 39 | Chapter 3.4.2 — Midnight Forty-Two, The First Ash... | 0 |
| 40 | Chapter 3.5 — Two Deaths for Two Lives | 0 |
| 41 | Author's Note — Translation Refinement in Progress | 0 |
| 42 | Chapter 3.6 — Elena Against the Nihilith (1/2) | 0 |
| 43 | Chapter 3.7 — Elena Against the Nihilith (2/2) | 0 |
| 44 | Chapter 3.8 — NATALICIUS | 0 |
| 45 | Chapter 3.9 — What the Forest Takes | 0 |
| 46 | Author's Note — The Great Re-Translation Is Done | 0 |
| 47 | Chapter 4 — Continuation | 0 |
| 48 | Chapter 4.1 — The Weight, the Heaviest | 0 |
| 49 | Chapter 4.2 — Anima canens sensus vitae | 0 |
| 50 | Chapter 4.3 — Gaze | 0 |
| 51 | Chapter 4.4 — Friendship | 0 |
| 52 | Chapter 4.5 — Just Simple Questions | 0 |
| 53 | Chapter 4.6 — Preparation | 0 |
| 54 | Author's Note — Book I : Genesis of a Forgotten World , is nearing its end | 0 |
| 55 | Chapter 4.7 — ANIMA | 0 |
| 56 | Chapter 4.8 — DERUPTUS | — |
| 57 | Chapitre 4.9 — CONVERSIO | — |
| 58 | Chapter 4.9.5 — To the Man Who Never Loved | — |
| 59 | Author's Note —The End of Book 1 — and a Short Absence | — |
| 60 | Chapitre 4.9.6 — PECCATUM AMORIS | — |
| 61 | Chapitre 5 — Born | — |
| 62 | Afterword Born in the Ashe : Volume 1 | — |
| 63 | Chapter 6 — Of Ashes and Words | — |
| 64 | Chapter 6.1 — Living with His Sorrow | — |
| 65 | Author's Note — Until I return | 0 |