Threads Of The Domain
Ashes of the Domain follows a man who dies for his convictions and returns to a world that no longer has room for mercy.
In his first life, Elric Veyne is a gifted Memory‑wielder in a theocratic empire that uses spiritual “Threads” to control history, law, and war. As the empire sanitizes famines and atrocities with careful edits, Elric rebels by forcing rulers to remember the suffering they caused, hoping raw truth will change the world. Instead, his actions shatter a king’s mind, ignite a holy war, and make Elric a symbol of treason. Branded too dangerous to live, he is taken to a sacred mountain where Threads lie closest to the cosmic Loom and cast off the edge by the comrades who once swore to follow him.
As he falls, Elric deliberately lets his own Thread fray, releasing the memories he anchored and tearing himself out of the pattern that defined him. In the space between death and impact, he glimpses the Loom—an endless lattice of spiritual Threads—and binds himself to a new, ash‑dark Domain tied not to memory, but to absence. He awakens in a harsher, more industrial world that treats Threads as tools and commodities rather than sacred duties, his past life erased from records but echoing in fragments inside his mind. When a stranger asks his name, he buries “Elric Veyne” and calls himself Zayn Morel.
Reborn with a colder Domain and a lifetime of betrayal buried under partial amnesia, Zayn grows into a ruthless operator in a city of Thread‑clinics, cults, and criminal markets. Determined never again to be the one thrown from the mountain, he weaponizes his powers without hesitation, breaking minds, faith, and loyalties before they can break him. Yet as he rises through the shadows, encounters with Tangle‑Seers, old myths of “Returned Threads,” and disturbing gaps in his own history force him to confront the question he thought he’d escaped: is he an instrument of cosmic correction, or just a man repeating his own wound on a different stage?
The story follows Zayn’s struggle to reconcile Elric’s idealism with his new merciless self as he uncovers hints that his fall was not only a political sentence, but part of a deeper pattern in the Loom itself. Torn between vengeance against the world that betrayed him and the possibility of a different kind of rebirth, Zayn must decide whether to tear holes in the tapestry of reality for his own justice, or accept that some sins cannot be undone, only carried.
