The Sump

In Diamonte, your life is measured in merits. Die in the red, and your body is repurposed to fuel the witch-pitch braziers. For a fragile gnome fresh from the sterile green wards, waking up as state property is a death sentence. She has no physical strength, a towering one-thousand merit debt, and nothing but a rusted dagger thrown at her feet by a sneering Orc warden. In a brutal barracks where the weak are ground down to fuel the city's steam-works, survival seems mathematically impossible. But she isn't planning on dying here. An unexpected alliance with a rugged human named Brick and a glimpse of an emblem carved on a boulder just beyond the prison gates change everything. To claw her way out of the Sump, she will have to rely on her wits, navigate a meat-grinder system that executes the weak, and uncover the dark secrets kept behind the great walls. Expect a gritty low-tech survival tale filled with dangers and secrets. Our physically weak protagonist must use her cunning to outwit the world trying to kill her. Built on years of lore created by me, you'll wander through the world and its intricacies.