Crimson Tide: Under the Ashen Veil.

"The gods are silent. The surface is ash. And something ancient just opened its eyes underground."

Beneath the shattered remains of the old world, survivors live by the light of dying ley-lines and the brutal order of the Guilds. Kaelen Vire, a mercenary with a haunted past, and Rook Dastan, his wolf-blooded companion, expected another job. What they found instead was a child-abandoned, ley-sick, and impossible.

The boy shouldn't be alive. He hums with magic that should not exist. And the deeper they go, the more the world bends around him.

Now pursued by cult fanatics, hunted by relic-born horrors, and tangled in a prophecy no one remembers writing, Kaelen and Rook must decide: save the child, or survive the world that wants him forgotten.

The Stones are stirring. The Ashen Veil is watching. And something lost is calling itself home.

Author Note: "It explores identity through queerness, loss, and transformation. The world of Emberdeep and beyond is not safe. It is brutal, beautiful, and dripping with myth made flesh."

CONTENT DISCLOSURE: CRIMSON TIDE - THE ASHEN VEIL

This story contains mature themes including post-apocalyptic survival, body horror, psychological trauma, cult manipulation, interdimensional war, and the existential burden of inherited power.

Viewer discretion is advised for depictions of violence, grief, and magical corruption. This is not a tale of heroes-it is a chronicle of chosen scars and the price of remembering.