Ashes of memory

ASHEN In a world where memory is power, forgetting is death. Ashen is a land ruled by ancient Structures, fractured Gods, and long seasons that grind empires down to bone. Magic is bound to blood and oath, every miracle exacting a price. What is remembered endures. What is forgotten is unmade. When a forbidden Archive is breached and a force known only as The Forgetting stirs, the world begins to erase itself. Names vanish from stone. Histories unravel. Those who witness the truth are changed—or lost. Theren of House BlackStone survives what should not be survived. Marked by forbidden knowledge and hunted by powers that fear remembrance itself, he is forced to make impossible choices: whether to protect what remains, seek truths no one else can bear, or confront forces that would reshape the world entirely. As whispers of erasure spread and loyalties fracture, the line between myth and history collapses. In Ashen, there are no chosen heroes—only those who endure long enough to be remembered. And some memories would rather see the world burn than be forgotten.