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Ashes of memory

In a world where memory carries weight and forgetting is feared like death, Ashen is shaped by ancient Structures, fractured faiths, and long seasons that grind kingdoms down to bone. Power is inherited through blood and bound through oath every strength demanding its cost. What is remembered endures. What is lost cannot always be recovered. Within the great House of BlackStone, memory is not just history it is duty. They are the first and last line between Ashen and something buried beneath it, a sealed truth guarded for millennia within the forbidden Archive. Most believe it to be a vault of knowledge. Others know it is something more. When Theren BlackStone comes of age at twenty-three, he is brought into the deepest chamber of that Archive to undergo a rite meant to sharpen the mind and awaken what lies within his bloodline. But what should be a tradition becomes something heavier an event that unsettles what even his own family is willing to speak of. As Theren steps deeper into his House’s purpose, fractures begin to show not in the world, but in perception itself. Moments feel misplaced. Conversations carry gaps that should not exist. And within the silence of the Archive, something old begins to feel… close. Bound by lineage, watched by his own blood, and shaped by a philosophy that values victory above all else, Theren is forced to navigate a world where strength is not enough if perception itself cannot be trusted. The deeper he moves into the truth of BlackStone, the less certain he becomes of what history has been carefully taught to preserve. In Ashen, power is not only what you take it is what you are allowed to remember. And some truths do not stay buried because they are dead… but because they are waiting. This is 100% my work every character is of my own making and under my ownership enjoy the read
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IRENE'S SECRET

Within the grand halls of the Kingdom of Eskard, Irene lives like a ghost everyone pretends does not exist. Although she is the daughter of the great King, she is nothing more than "a stain upon his name" in everyone's eyes. Irene is the only princess of mixed, non-noble blood, the daughter of a maid whose entire family was massacred before her eyes by order of her own father, the King, under the pretext of treason and espionage. But the bitter truth behind their deaths was far more horrifying than anyone could bear, and far too dangerous to be revealed. The King kept her alive within the palace for years, not out of mercy as his people believed, but to use her as a bargaining chip, waiting for the perfect moment to dispose of her, just as he had done with her mother. And now, the time has come to "sell" her. He has decided to marry her off to General and Prince Lucas Theodore de Valerian of the enemy kingdom. Yet Lucas has never seen Irene as his wife. To him, she is nothing more than an additional burden that has kept him from being with the only woman he has ever loved. For Irene, however, this was not a losing bargain. It was the opportunity she had been waiting for all these years. Escaping her father's watchful eyes was the only freedom that would allow her to carry out her secret revenge from the shadows. But when the threads of fate begin to intertwine, and the abandoned princess finds herself in the heart of the enemy's den, will she remain faithful to her secret plan? And how can a heart that has known nothing but pain and revenge face a new reality such as love, a feeling it has never believed in? Will Irene succeed in bringing down the throne of the tyrant whose very name makes everyone tremble? Or will the snares of the past close around her before she can bring the curtain down on her revenge? follow my discord to find all information and update: https://discord.gg/mzHuNZwgK
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