Ashen Harvest

In the gaslit city of Thornwick, the dead don't stay quiet.

Kael Ashborn opened his eyes on the gallows — after the rope had already snapped his neck. He should be dead. Instead, he carries something that shouldn't exist: the power to harvest skills, memories, and fate from the fallen.

Every corpse he touches grants him a fragment of their life — their swordsmanship, their secrets, their dying regrets. But each harvest has a toll. The souls whisper in his mind, their memories threaten to drown his own identity, and the line between himself and the dead grows dangerously thin.

In a world where Six Orders wage eternal war against Seventy-Two Abyssal Entities sealed beneath the city, Kael doesn't join the righteous. He walks the corpse-strewn battlefields alone, taking what he needs from friend and foe alike.

They call him a monster. They're not wrong. But monsters are what this world needs.

Ashen Harvest is a Victorian gaslamp dark fantasy with progression elements, an anti-hero protagonist, and a mysterious magic system where power comes at the cost of identity. Daily updates.