The Moon-Eaten Isle



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The Moon-Eaten Isle is a dark oceanic horror fantasy novel by Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda, set on the cursed island of Yndros-Khal—an isolated kingdom adrift in the endless, ink-black sea known as the Duskwater Expanse.

Centuries ago, the priests of Yndros-Khal betrayed their patron deity, Molkarith, the lunar god whose second moon lit the isle in silver light. In divine retribution, Molkarith devoured the moon, plunging the island into eternal night and cursing its people with a creeping madness known as Moonrot—an affliction that drives the infected into fits of lunacy with each passing tide.

Now, the world is shifting again.

A blood eclipse rises. The sea churns. The obsidian Shardspire fractures, and whispers seep from the dark.

Velrak Thorne, a disgraced harbormaster burdened by guilt and plagued by visions, is drawn into a spiraling nightmare as he begins to hear voices from beneath the waves. He is approached by Nyrel Vaenra, a blind spirit-kin navigator who "sees" through dead voices, and soon joined by Kasith Mournveil, the last of the Moonblade knights—warriors once sworn to protect the lunar order. Together with Sorun Vethra, a crypt-born scribe who carries forbidden knowledge, they uncover evidence of an ancient betrayal hidden deep beneath the drowned altars of the Tomb of Teeth.

But the sea does not forget. And Molkarith’s vengeance is not yet spent.

From the shipwreck-choked Severed Harbor to the bone-choked Ashen Gardens, from cannibal cults and cursed shipwrights to the withered Pallid Queen who claims dominion over the isle, the group must navigate a crumbling world of madness, memory, and myth. As the final tide rises, their choices will determine whether Yndros-Khal is devoured by the dark god it betrayed—or if something even worse is unleashed upon the world.

For readers of dark fantasy, cosmic horror, and mythic fantasy with teeth, The Moon-Eaten Isle delivers a rich, immersive tale of divine wrath, decaying faith, and the terrifying silence that follows a god’s betrayal.

Themes include:
• Divine Betrayal and Cosmic Vengeance
• Madness as Inheritance
• Faith Weaponized Against the Faithful
• Oceans as Living, Malevolent Entities

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