Deepwoken: Awaken In The Deep
“To reach the sky, he first had to conquer the Deep.”
Renric Vael never knew the surface.
As a child, he awoke in Layer 2—a place of deathless echoes, crawling horrors, and the whispers of the Hive. Taken in by a wandering Pathfinder, Renric learned to fight, survive, and think like a predator. His body became weapon. His mind became fortress. But even the strongest lights die in the Deep, and when his mentor is torn from him in a brutal raid, Renric is left alone—blindfolded, burdened, and haunted.
Now, he seeks the impossible: escape.
Armed with a whispering dagger, the teachings of the dead, and a cursed pact with the Visionshaping Hive, Renric claws his way toward the surface. But freedom comes at a price. The world above is no sanctuary. It fears what crawled up from below—and Renric is no longer just a boy. He is something else. Something watched.
As he unravels his true origins, uncovers the secret his mentor took to the grave, and walks the blade-edge between man and monster, Renric will face war, love, betrayal… and the call of the Deep that never stops whispering his name.
