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 formation 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 and broken forms.
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.
In a time when even heroes lose their way, can a boy with nothing left find a reason to fight?
