Echoes of the Vein Hollow

They say the Veinwood does not forget. But Kaelen Thorne was never meant to remember.

In the mist-veiled village of Threnwald, Kaelen lives quietly as a mapmaker of forgotten things: ancient roads no longer walked, borders long erased, and memories that don't belong to him. Raised among ink and parchment, he is content to chart the world from a distance. His quill is the only thing that truly understands him.

But when a map he never drew begins to change on its own; its lines shifting, symbols appearing, and secrets bleeding through the page-Kaelen is pulled into a world buried beneath roots and silence for centuries.

Something stirs beneath the Veinwood. A fingerprint left in ink. A knocking beneath the floorboards. And a spiral he has seen before, in dreams he cannot remember and scars he cannot trace.

As old powers awaken and kingdoms edge toward war, Kaelen will learn that some maps are drawn not to guide, but to bind.