Echoes of Mortality

Eldorann Dreamshadow killed the man she loved to spare him from undeath. Afterward she hunted the people who had taken him — and whatever Horde stood nearby when she could not find them — a rampage across Ashenvale to the Barrens, until grief and motion ran out together in Desolace. She died there. She wakes in Undercity seven days later wearing the same wound: the clean line of his killing-stroke traced now across her own throat, returned to her by the very people she had spent those months hunting. She is Forsaken. She is herself. The two facts do not reconcile. Lilian Voss waits at the bedside as the witness who pieced her back together: bodysmith, teacher, eventually something the language has not yet caught up to. Across the faction line, Clay Keats keeps a vigil he was never asked to keep, and an SI:7 agent named Sarah Ambrose carries something across the dark she does not know how to name. Echoes of Mortality is a slow-burn tale of trauma-informed dark fantasy in the Warcraft setting, written in a Donaldson register: dense interiority, multi-POV, no easy answers, no chosen-one mechanics. Adult themes throughout, handled with care. Book 2 of a five-book arc. Book 1 — Echoes of a Shattered Moon — is complete (~202,000 words) and posted in full. You can start here; you'll get more if you start there. This is a 15 chapter book in progress.This is a passion project I've poured a lot into, and I'd genuinely love to hear what's landing and what isn't. If you've made it this far, consider dropping a comment or a rating — it helps the story find more readers, and it helps me know I'm not just writing into the void.