Trinket and Whisper
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Last published Fri, Feb 21, 2025
There's a reason they call Qardis the City of Whispering Walls.
Dreams are a myth...
An impossibility...
A disease detested across the lands of Thelessia...
But when the claims of dreams surge across Qardis, defying popular beliefs, silent unrest has terrorized over Qardis. Dreamers are arrested, torn apart from families, wrested away from their homes to an unknown fate, never to return again, spreading fear across the populace over a phenomenon that is not even in their control. How long until the Monocle can answer the people, and how long until the plague of dreams takes over the entire land and the Monocle is left with no one to rule?
No one knows why.
No one knows how.
No one wants to know.
But beneath the shadows and marble-floored austerity, conspiracies brew, plots are written, resistance is growing, questions are burning, and the safest and most protected empire of Thelessia is once again on the verge of its own collapse, and this time, the whole world outside its walls is watching.
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