Fantasy

Slabborn Shadows

In an untamed world untouched by modern humanity, humans of all ages awaken naked and amnesiac on ancient stone ritual slabs, retaining only vague echoes of their past lives. Two generations after the first arrivals, this bronze-age grimdark fantasy realm features scattered tribes and factions experimenting with primitive agriculture, animal domestication, trade, and mysterious magics unknowingly fueled by collective belief—one tribe channels solar power through rituals, another spills blood for strength, their common thread undiscovered. The dominant faction, the Iron Dominion, clings to fragile stability amid tribal raids, internal politics, and prowling beasts. Its king, a first-wave arrival of great and terrible might, rules with an iron fist, advised by a sage retaining fragmented memories of lost humanity. Crude stone chambers encircle the slabs, echoing with violence as new 'Slabborn' emerge. You awaken as a 9-year-old boy among five others in a circle, cold and confused, when an 8-year-old girl with golden blonde hair and brilliant blue eyes—seer of a guiding goddess—points at you: 'This one, this one will never hurt me.' Her guardian, a towering warrior in black metal armor from the first wave, leads a nascent knight order to protect visionaries forging humanity's future. He claims you for training as a knight.

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