Ashen Veins of the Sky-Tomb God

 

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In a world where gods bleed ash and time itself unravels, one forsaken man must choose between annihilation and becoming a myth.

High above the scorched wastelands of Torral Vance, where the sun never dies and the winds whisper the names of the forgotten, a colossal, crucified god lies in deathless agony. Known as the Sky-Tomb God, this mummified behemoth stretches between two jagged mountain spires, its body threaded with ashen veins — conduits of molten ichor, alive and hungering, warping flesh, stone, and memory alike.

For millennia, this ancient, broken god has dreamt in its tormented sleep. But when a ruthless mining syndicate drills too deep into its fossilized heart, those dreams bleed into reality. Those who inhale the god's sacred fumes become the Ashbound — half-human, half-divine monstrosities, their cracked flesh aglow with molten veins and their minds tangled in alien prophecies.

Into this crumbling, fevered world walks Ydrav Malrix — a scarred grave-prospector famed for raiding forbidden death-sites no sane man dares approach. Haunted by the loss of his sister to the Ashbound plague, Ydrav stumbles upon a vault hidden within the god’s decaying ribcage. Inside lies a relic older than empires: a sentient reliquary capable of burning out a soul and replacing it with another. As the Ashbound hordes overrun cities, reality’s seams tear, and the heavens themselves fracture, Ydrav is left with an impossible choice.

Annihilate the god’s heart, risking the unraveling of existence itself, or merge with it and become a vessel for an ancient power longing to remake the world in its own dying image.

Alongside him stands Vherena Callisk, an exiled scribe-priestess condemned for daring to claim that the god still dreams. In secret, she gathers the last untainted survivors, fighting to record Ydrav’s final acts in the hope that even if memory fails, story might endure.

Meanwhile, Korrith Bane-Tide, a ruthless commander of the mining syndicate’s Blackguard, finds himself consumed by the very ichor he sought to control, leading a doomed rebellion of Ashbound against their merciless god. And lurking in the shadowed places, Mireth Hollow-Coil, a soul-trader of forbidden relics, must reckon with her guilt and the terrible price of greed.

Ashen Veins of the Sky-Tomb God is a nightmarish dark fantasy epic of ancient betrayals, cosmic decay, and dying worlds. For readers of Brian Staveley, Anna Smith Spark, and Clive Barker, this is a mythic saga of death, memory, and monstrous divinity.

KEY FEATURES:

• A titanic, crucified god bleeding sentient ichor.
• Apocalyptic wastelands where time fractures and reality erodes.
• Vault relics that rewrite history and identity.
• Memory forgers who carve false pasts onto bone.
• A god-blood plague turning mortals into molten-veined prophets.
• A death-seeker’s journey from scavenger to unwilling messiah.

THEMES EXPLORED:

• The corruption of ancient power bleeding into the modern world.
• The fragility of memory, myth, and identity in a dying reality.
• Whether it is nobler to annihilate the horrors of the past, or endure them for the sake of knowledge.
• The devastating cost of human greed when faced with forgotten gods.

Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda delivers a harrowing, vividly imagined descent into a world where the sky never sets, the gods bleed poison, and even death is not an escape from memory.

If you hunger for dark, visionary fantasy soaked in dread, decay, and the relics of dying gods, Ashen Veins of the Sky-Tomb God belongs in your hands.

Dare to look up. The god still dreams