Lysandre | ONC 2025 |
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"Say goodbye, for may we meet again in another hell."
Fractured by the chains that bound him to past transgressions. Lysandre Highwind stands falsely accused of slaughtering the realm's protector. In a world plagued by a deadly sickness, teetering on the brink of collapse, Lysandre finds himself ensnared in a deadly web of betrayal as he is burned at the stake for his crimes. Awakened by the trance of an unholy demise, Lysandre rises from the dead with shards of his memory leading up to his death, a fraction of his emotions, and a missing ring finger.-
As a grave sickness rids the realm of Rivenhelm into calamity, in a desperate bid to reclaim his honour, he must forge an unlikely alliance with a fierce dwarf and a cunning privateer. With time slipping through their fingers, they must uncover a haunting path to cleanse the blood that stains his name and banish the realm's suffocating darkness before its too late. Time is slipping away, and the spectre of doom looms ever closer as a chilling reminder that salvation may be their only hope or their final curse, for not all that appears is as it seems.
Prompt #91. No one believes you. But you are the only one who can solve this mystery -- for all of them.
Sub Prompt #52: Let's play a game of colours: you paint me red because you love me, and I'll paint you black because I want you gone.
Started on: February 1st, 2025
First Published on: February 21st, 2025
Ended on: April 28, 2025
Total word count: 39885 (Narrative, not including author's notes, or media such as banners.)
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