❝this tree was grown with rotted roots.❞ Nerluce is Darkest Shadow. He is that great and terrible entity, prophesied over a thousand years before, more like a hurricane than a man. His hair falls crooked, poorly cut by his family's blade. His fingers curl like claws, stained black by ash and war. Aristide is the Angel of Death. He is that man-made divinity which no prophecy was able to fortell, a monster made of ice and bone. Frost clings to his lashes as blood clings to his palms. CONTENT WARNINGS (16+) Profanity, violence and gore, alcohol and drug usage, non-explicit sexual content, self-destructive actions and suicidal ideation, minor character death, and morally-questionable people doing morally-questionable things. [[WORD COUNT: IN PROGRESS]] COVER BY APHRODITE270

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