The Last Ritual

<p><strong>We killed God.</strong><br>Carved rituals from its corpse-long lives healing weapons.<br>Millennia of prosperity enough to make you weep.<br>But nothing comes without a cost.<br>Three curses carved in kind.</p><p>The Leath are winning.<br>And now something worse threatens us both: mindless hideous final.</p><p>Oh the goats? They want our help.<br>Well. They can have it.<br>It's time for another ritual.<br>Yes.<br>This one will be different.</p><p>I and three others will go. We will not return-we understand this.<br>But if we succeed then you who remain must carry on.<br>Maybe find a cure for your... affliction.<br>Pass this note down.<br>Let something of us survive.</p><p><strong>P.S. </strong><em>Saa give the younglings my farewell. Nothing too sentimental you understand. Yes both of them.</em><br><strong>P.P.S.</strong> <em>You're still wrong about the portraits.</em></p><p><em>-Excerpt from a gray's final message found in Ironwall's inn.</em></p><p><strong>A dark fantasy novel about sacrifice ruin and philosophy made manifest.</strong><br><strong>For fans of grimdark tragic legacies friendship and choices with consequences.</strong></p><p>Approximately 72000 words. Contains themes of war decay memory and (in)human resilience.</p><p><strong>Their last ritual wasn't for power. It was for you.</strong></p>