Assassinfantasy Stories

Prince Xathan has spent his life serving the EernTree, an ancient power that grants order through silence and obedience. Raised by the Blackroot Covenant to be a perfect, invisible weapon, he believes control is protection-until an ambush leaves him alive and the Tree's guiding presence suddenly absent. Watched by his own masters and haunted by questions he was never meant to ask, Xathan is sent beyond the Tree's reach into a world where freedom exists without permission. There, the cracks in the system that shaped him begin to widen, forcing him to decide whether loyalty is worth the cost of his humanity. Dark, elegiac, and sharply philosophical, Beneath the EernTree explores what happens when a weapon begins to choose-and the roots that will not release it quietly