Aredith

A dark fantasy western where the wrong kind of blood can get a teenager killed by everyone who claims to protect him. In a world rebuilt centuries after a war ended by children with god-like powers, Arimi is just another orphan in a dusty frontier town,quiet, strange and marked by scars he doesn't remember earning and dreams he can't explain. He talks to something that lives behind his ribs. His body does things it shouldn't. Others call him cursed, and the people running his life have been watching him far too closely for far too long. When a chance act of kindness — helping a wounded stranger in the street — spins his whole life sideways, Arimi discovers that the people meant to care for him have been keeping him for something else entirely, and that the thing sleeping inside his blood is older, angrier, and far more dangerous than anything this teenage boy should have to carry. Taken in by an outlaw family that the world calls criminals and he'll come to call the only home he's ever had, Arimi is pulled into a fight far bigger than himself — one where secret powered elites, governments with advanced armies, ancient bloodlines, and a corrupt church all have their own reasons to want him dead, and none of them are telling him the truth.  Across his adventure and a growing found-family of the broken and discarded, he has to figure out who he is before the forces hunting him decide that for him.