Ashes of Kāladruma
In a forgotten temple town where the gods no longer answer, a frail and overlooked monk apprentice named Ravi Kiran begins to hear whispers in his dreams—whispers that do not belong to this Yuga. When a cursed tree breathes his name into the storm and scars his soul with sap, Ravi awakens to a terrifying truth:
He is a remnant. A child of broken fate.
Marked by the Jeeva-Vriksha, a monstrous, divine tree that feeds on memory and breathes dreams into flesh, Ravi is dragged into Nakthivan, a decaying dreamworld where ruined deities rot, and time has already ended. The laws of Dharma collapse, monsters wear godmasks, and ancient truths sleep beneath ash and roots.
Haunted by visions of gods long forgotten, hunted by twisted dreambeasts called Vrāta, and pursued by Dūta, divine enforcers from other timelines, Ravi must learn to navigate the Bindu, a metaphysical spark of reality itself—before his own soul fractures beyond repair.
But the deeper he walks through broken dreams, the more he realizes:
This world does not need a hero. It needs a binder.
And the gods?
They remember him.
Because he was never supposed to exist.