The Ash Solstice
OngoingAuthor
KeenanKeenan: a dark fantasy author distilling high-stakes tabletop campaigns into raw, gripping prose. As an independent creator, collaboratively with the player built a dangerous, immersive living world chronicles where choices matter and survival is never guaranteed. Welcome to the ash.
Book 3 of The Ash Solstice Chronicles, an ongoing play-by-post campaign collaboratively developed with the player(s).
Book 1 is available on KU (and locked there for approximately 90 days)
Book 2 is being special released as a Kickstarter Bundle - potential to have a name added to it.
Book 3 is a standalone that starts of the events of Sergeant Gavin Anderson, a Mobile Response Sergeant of the City Watch. He and his squad are managing routes during the busiest day of the year, the Midsummer Festival, when suddenly, The Sun Curdles. How does he respond?
The Captain may be absent.
The Crown may be unreachable.
The Cathedral may have sealed itself.
The old city may barely exist.
But the Watch remains.
When the sun curdles, the world does not end. It simply forgets how to live.
Vespar has always watched the city from its edges—its rooftops, hidden passages, and forgotten places. But during the Midsummer Festival, the sun turns violet, summer becomes lethal cold, and burning ash begins to fall from the sky.
In the Market below, familiar faces twist into something impossible.
Vespar has only moments to act. One arrow frees a missing child. One choice carries a girl away from her father. By the time they reach the Cathedral of Light, its gates have closed against the rest of the city.
The Ash Solstice: Book I — The Sun Curdled is a dark-fantasy survival chronicle about impossible choices, incomplete truths, and the people left outside when sanctuary closes its doors. Adapted from an ongoing collaborative play-by-post campaign, it combines intimate character drama with recovered records from a world that continues beyond any single perspective.