ancient fantasy · magic system · dark fantasy · hierarchical society · elemental powers · royal family · dangerous romance · winter setting · vengeful spirits · political intrigue
*A thousand years ago, magic was the thread that stitched the world together, centered on a mountain-spanning palace that housed an Emperor of unparalleled might.* *The capital, the City of Moons, glimmered under a veil of iridescent light, a mirror to the star-strewn sky. A river alive with sorcery plunged through the city's heart, its constant whisper a balm to any who walked its shores. Those few who called it home moved with a preternatural grace, as if the air itself held them aloft.* *Yet the calm was a thin veneer. Dark spirits—Geomul—infested the night. Once human, now cursed to linger in the realm of the dead, they hunted the living with a single, desperate purpose: to claim a life and pass their endless agony to another.*