Working Title: Projekt Grit

Brooklyn, after the Rising. The world is permanently broken. Random rift events tear across the five boroughs daily, dimensional beings cross over in unpredictable ways, and each borough has adapted to continuous, unpredictable pressure in its own culturally specific way. Holding the world together is a leyline network and an informational overlay called the Lattice - a cosmologically active substrate with agency, memory, and rules that predate humanity.
Amara Adeyemi is a Black comparative mythographer of Yoruba diaspora heritage, inheriting an ancestral Cipher Keeper bloodline. Her power operates through a seven-tier glyph progression system, and every tier costs her a permanent physical scar and a measurable loss of self.
She is not alone in what is coming. Multiple antagonist factions operate at different scales against her and the world she belongs to: a hidden interstellar-mystic race called the Annunaki working through a structure called the Convening; sleeping pre-Rising entities operating through unaware human avatars; an interdimensional trafficking network; a class of devourer entities; and an Outer Order with roots in the historical 18th-century Hellfire Club and the wartime Ahnenerbe occult bureau.
Veilrend is built as a multi-season franchise across anime, manga, and adjacent media - serialized long-form storytelling with cosmic stakes, intimate cost, and a protagonist whose inheritance was being prepared for her in fragments across generations she never knew were preparing her.