The Venator Guild: Live Hunt Survive
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Last published Wed, Jul 23, 2025
"Hunt to survive. Hunt to eat. Hunt for sport. The choice is yours-just remember to pay your dues."
Centuries into the future, the world has changed beyond recognition. Technology has reached staggering heights, but society has fractured. Traditional jobs have vanished, replaced by a single, dangerous occupation: hunting.
Across the untamed lands of Pherora, monstrous creatures-mutated by time and environment-roam freely. To hunt them is to live. But only those who pay their dues to the Venator Guild-the governing body of this new world-can claim bounties and earn a living. The wealthy hunt for pleasure. The desperate hunt to survive. Dornico Wincav hunts for revenge.
His father died deep in the Lorelei, a shadow-cloaked region where nightmares walk and few return. He'd ventured there to earn enough coin to buy medicine for Dornico's ailing mother-and paid the ultimate price. Now, Dornico is determined to pick up where his father left off. No more minor bounties. No more scraping by. He's going into the Lorelei, where only the bold-or the foolish-dare tread.
But the beasts that prowl the dark aren't his only threat. In Pherora, the most dangerous predator may still be human.
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