In a world where memory is the substance of reality, history is a blade. The great nations maintain their power by surgically cutting away their pasts. With each famine forgotten, each defeat erased, each betrayal purged, they become stronger, their histories flawless. But the lies have a cost. The discarded memories do not vanish. They gather into the Echoing Blight, a monstrous, creeping oblivion that consumes land and minds, threatening to unmake the world. Knyaz Sineus of Belogorod is cursed to see the truth. Unlike his subjects, he cannot forget. He sees the ghostly overlays of what was and feels the wound in reality with every cut. While his court celebrates their manufactured strength, Sineus watches the Blight devour the horizon. He knows the walls of his fortress city cannot protect them from an enemy that erases existence itself. His only choice is a desperate gamble: a journey to unite the warring factions in a council of truth. His quest for survival will take him through lands haunted by memory-stitched beasts, across the steppes of pragmatic merchants who trade in oblivion, and into the halls of honor-bound warriors who would rather die than acknowledge their shame. He must seek help from a reclusive archivist who curates the stories of dead worlds and a forest guide who believes the Blight is a spirit that must be soothed, not fought. But a far darker power lurks in the shadows. A warlord who does not fear the Blight but wears it as a cloak, a master of forgotten nightmares who seeks to control the encroaching chaos. To save his world, Sineus must convince his rivals that the only path to survival is to embrace the full, painful weight of their history. Can one man force a world to remember what it has killed itself to forget?
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In a world where memory is the substance of reality, history is a blade. The great nations maintain their power by surgically cutting away their pasts. With each famine forgotten, each defeat erased, each betrayal purged, they become stronger, their histories flawless. But the lies have a cost. The discarded memories do not vanish. They gather into the Echoing Blight, a monstrous, creeping oblivion that consumes land and minds, threatening to unmake the world. Knyaz Sineus of Belogorod is cursed to see the truth. Unlike his subjects, he cannot forget. He sees the ghostly overlays of what was and feels the wound in reality with every cut. While his court celebrates their manufactured strength, Sineus watches the Blight devour the horizon. He knows the walls of his fortress city cannot protect them from an enemy that erases existence itself. His only choice is a desperate gamble: a journey to unite the warring factions in a council of truth. His quest for survival will take him through lands haunted by memory-stitched beasts, across the steppes of pragmatic merchants who trade in oblivion, and into the halls of honor-bound warriors who would rather die than acknowledge their shame. He must seek help from a reclusive archivist who curates the stories of dead worlds and a forest guide who believes the Blight is a spirit that must be soothed, not fought. But a far darker power lurks in the shadows. A warlord who does not fear the Blight but wears it as a cloak, a master of forgotten nightmares who seeks to control the encroaching chaos. To save his world, Sineus must convince his rivals that the only path to survival is to embrace the full, painful weight of their history. Can one man force a world to remember what it has killed itself to forget?
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