Horrors Beyond the Veil: Lingering Flame
Across the world, an unseen plague spreads. Ordinary people descend into madness, becoming Holmen: twisted, violent, and vanishing without a trace. They slaughter their families. They burn their homes. They destroy without reason or remorse. No one agrees on the cause. The Temple blames moral decay. The Regime of Ezkabel calls it natural. But one thing is clear, they are multiplying.
The Corruption is rising.
The world’s largest power, Ezkabel, rules two-thirds of the known lands through ritual-bound magic and authoritarian order. Its systems are efficient, cold, and absolute. Its influence reaches even where its banners do not.
But beneath the surface, older sciences remain, disciplines mistaken for magic, buried in lost chants, forgotten symbols, and broken forms. They linger like fading embers in remote corners of Earth, waiting for a spark.
And in the midst of it all stands Larsen, a frail boy with a shattered past and a silence so deep it scrapes the soul. While others fear the Holmen outside, Larsen hunts his own darkness within, diving into his mind, tracing trauma like a thread, and awakening something long lost.
What begins as meditation turns into revelation. What begins as survival becomes resistance.
This is the story of Larsen, his loneliness, his fire, and his fall. Of knowledge rediscovered, of symbols that mean more than they should, and of a world gasping under its own weight.
In a time when even heroes lose their way, can a boy with nothing left find a reason to fight?
