After Death is in a world where curses walk among the living, power is not given, is taken. Some are born with it. Some steal it.
And some… create it. There are those who hunt the extraordinary, calling themselves guardians of order.
And there are those who embrace it, building empires in the shadows where no one dares look. In a world where the sky sometimes cracks open and lets something old and hungry slip through, people learn to live with the impossible
Curses are not metaphors here. They are real, living shadows that wear human skin, ancient grudges given form, or simple accidents of existence that refuse to stay buried. Some people hunt them. Others worship them. Most just try to survive them. Hedonas calls itself the shield of humanity. A vast organization of hunters, scholars, and enforcers dedicated to eradicating the extraordinary before it consumes the ordinary. They wear their righteousness like armor, and their blades are forged in the certainty that anything beyond the human baseline is a threat. Sky Boys, by contrast, emerged from the margins—whispers at first, then a creed. Their leader speaks of freedom, of power, of a future where the extraordinary no longer hides. It's not just between these two forces, a lot of external forces, intrigues and chaos