When the Shard Burns

In the fractured realms of Kavareth, memory is more than recollection—it is power, currency, and curse. Here, every act carves itself into the soul, and the world’s fabric—the Shardweave—binds reality itself through axioms and scars. But as cracks spider through the Shardweave, ancient horrors stir: Voidkin, beings born from corrupted ideals, surge to erase all that endures. At their head is Drayce, a traitor crowned in shadow and contradiction. Caught in the tempest is Tenchi Marucho, a paradox incarnate: born from sacrifice, shaped by prophecy, they wield the dueling fires of creation and destruction—flame and lightning that both heal and devastate. Tenchi was never meant to exist, yet their heart becomes the world’s crucible, forced to choose between salvation and annihilation with every heartbeat. At their side walks Saria, an exiled prince burdened by lineage and loss, his ice-sharp judgment masking the grief of a stolen childhood and a twin’s death. Marked by both council and kin, Saria’s power—cold as betrayal, bright as hope—may be the key to saving or dooming the Realms. But no one stands alone. With the world unraveling, Tenchi and Saria forge a reluctant fellowship: Lysra, the fateweaver whose visions bleed her memories away; Mira, the Oathweaver baker who heals wounds by sacrificing her past; Tivra, a storm-dancing mercenary running from freedom’s emptiness; and Zeryn, a bone-wrought warlord seeking redemption for sins he can barely recall. Each carries a legacy of pain, hope, and the conviction that heroism is not purity, but persistence—the will to show mercy when vengeance would be easier. As the Shardweave quakes and reality’s boundaries blur, this chosen family must confront betrayals, unearth forbidden truths, and battle monsters both without and within. Their journey will drag them through volcanic ruins, frost-bitten crypts, and rifts where memory and magic bleed together. Each victory demands sacrifice; every act of compassion threatens to shatter what little remains of their selves. At the edge of apocalypse, the line between savior and destroyer vanishes: to mend Kavareth, they must embrace the paradox at their core, becoming what the world most fears—a new covenant of mercy, defiance, and Dirty Determination. When the Shard Burns is an epic fantasy of trauma and hope, where identity is forged in fire and every scar tells a story. The war for memory, mercy, and meaning has begun. Will you endure?