Hexanem: When the Creator Was Gone

The Creator wanted His creations to wonder.

To feel. To love. To look beyond their own blood, their hungers, their wars, and their instincts for survival.

But no matter how many times He recreated the planet, Gharun’s creatures reverted to the same old instincts: race, weapons, conquest, survival.

So, before wiping them out once again, the Creator left them alone for two days.

For Him, it was a brief absence.

For them, however, it was four thousand years.

Now Gharun is on the verge of death, and the last surviving peoples are searching for Hexanem: a strange, hexagonal island mentioned in ancient prophecies. Perhaps a refuge, perhaps a bell jar, or perhaps the last mistake they are allowed to make.

The story is told from the perspective of  The Mad Weary. An undying, half-mad old man, and a keeper of memories. He hates the new world; yet he finds the ultimate purpose of his life in gathering the saplings of the new generation—if those little devils can even be called saplings—around him in this dust and dirt, and ensuring they learn from their past.

The Bloodborn, Whisperclad, Oathforged, and Shatterback races bear their own truths. None of them admits to being Gharun’s killer. But all of them have contributed to the planet’s destruction.
And if the children of Hexanem do not learn why Gharun was lost, Hexanem—the last cradle of the creatures—may become the grave of all races.