-The Vow-
A world is spoken into being where power is not merely possessed, but named—and these names, called “Titles,” bind fate, shape gifts, fracture identity, and decide who may endure. In such a world, survival is never random. It is inherited… or taken.
Riva was never meant to be drawn into its currents. Yet the moment something within her awakens—unstable, broken, resisting definition—she ceases to be invisible to the order that governs all things. The system notices. And so do those who hunt what should not exist.
What follows is not choice, but motion. She is pushed beyond the edges of safety, pursued by fear dressed as certainty, chased by those who believe her power is an omen of what is to come.
In flight, she crosses paths with Kaera—a blade in human form, sharp words masking sharper instincts. Salvation arrives without warmth, offered more out of irritation than mercy. And still, it is enough to bind their paths together.
From that single disruption, others gather—those who do not fit the world’s design, each carrying what they cannot lay down: histories that weigh, secrets that rot quietly, abilities that refuse to behave.
Yet in a world where every Title writes a person into place, nothing granted comes without cost. Even existence demands payment.
And among such powers, there are those that are not meant to be understood.
Only feared.
