Chapter 1: Salt in the Wounds

“The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.”

— Joseph Campbell

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Teaser:

The mountain kingdom of Thalmar did not fall.

It was dragged below.

Buried beneath stone, salt, grief, and time, it was left to rot in the dark. Once, it was a proud kingdom carved into the heart of a mountain — vast, wealthy, and certain it would endure.

Now, after years of silence, something below has begun to stir.

The first descent begins soon. Into abandoned tunnels. Into broken halls. Into a buried kingdom that should be dead, but isn’t. There are lights below that no one lit. Footsteps where no one should walk. Things growing in the dark that have never seen the sun.

This will be the first step into the ecosystem of the sunken kingdom: the ruins, the creatures, the survivors, the hazards, and the things that have changed after being sealed away for far too long.

And somewhere beneath all that salt, bone, and stone… the mountain remembers.

This adventure will be like Salt in the Wounds.