The Ashen Realm
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In a world divided between the Shadowlands and the Mortal Realm, a boy named Lucien is born with a soul marked by darkness and light. After losing his parents to the corrupted spirits of addiction, he is cast into the Mortal Realm's harsh underbelly, where he grows up unloved and hunted by the same shadows that claimed his family.
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