Lowmagicfantasy Stories

He was trained to survive a brutal world. He was not trained to accept it. Raised among guilds, noble estates, and rigid expectations, he learns discipline, restraint, and how to fight without losing control. Mercy is discouraged. Compassion is considered dangerous. Then he leaves the city. What begins as duty turns into a journey marked by violence, loss, and uncomfortable truths. On the road, he encounters creatures branded as monsters, people destroyed by fear, and choices that leave no one untouched. With every step forward, the line between justice and cruelty erodes. The world demands he harden. It rewards brutality and punishes hesitation. This is not a story about becoming a hero. It is a slow-burn fantasy about restraint over rage, understanding over fear, and the quiet defiance of choosing kindness in a world that insists it is a weakness. The world is cruel. Therefore, he won't be.

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