The Dominion Within

Damon Korz is a 23-year-old workaholic trapped in the machinery of modern life—efficient, invisible, and exhausted. He lives by numbers, deadlines, and the illusion of control, chasing a future built on power and influence. But beneath the surface of the city he calls home, something ancient has started to stir… and it’s been watching him. When a cryptic file appears on his computer without origin or explanation, Damon is pulled into the world of the Dominions—an occult system hidden beneath reality itself. Each Dominion is bound to a primal human drive: Ambition, Fear, Rage, Isolation, and more. Those chosen as candidates must confront distorted reflections of themselves in dreamlike trials that fracture the rules of logic, time, and identity. Damon is marked by the Dominion of Ambition—a dangerous force that feeds on desire for greatness but punishes weakness with madness. As he’s drawn deeper into this shadow war between unseen rulers and corrupted aspirants, the boundaries between mind and world begin to dissolve. His coworkers vanish. Time skips. Strangers speak his name like a prophecy. To survive, Damon must navigate a gauntlet of psychological terror, unearth buried truths about his own mind, and determine whether he’s the architect of his future… or merely another pawn in a game older than civilization. But power comes at a cost. And some doors, once opened, never close