sythraxisdusk
In the quiet town of Waldheim, Saxony, Germany, in the year 2010, there is a forest everyone knows about-but no one truly goes into.
They call it Schattengrund Wald.
By day, it looks ordinary. Just trees, paths, and silence that feels almost comforting. Locals walk near it, children hear warnings about it, and life continues as normal.
But as evening falls, something changes.
The forest feels... different. Not dangerous in an obvious way. Not dark like a horror story. Just wrong in a way no one can explain. Paths seem unfamiliar. Sounds don't match their source. And those who wander too far rarely talk about it the same way again-if they return at all.
So people stop going.
They stop asking.
They stop looking.
But curiosity doesn't disappear so easily.
A group of eight seventeen-year-old friends, known around school as THE VEILBOUND, decide to do what no one else does anymore-step inside Schattengrund and see for themselves.
What begins as a simple exploration slowly turns into something far harder to explain.
Because the deeper they go, the less the forest feels like a place...
and the more it feels like something that has been watching them all along.
And once you enter Schattengrund, there is one thing no one can agree on:
Did the forest change them...
or did it simply reveal what was already there?