Complexcharacers Stories

Etching is an art of magic so dangerously versatile that the difference between a master and a corpse is often a single misplaced rune. Gherm, a ten-year-old boy, lives in a village on the edge of civilization, far from societal conflicts and struggles. His only goal is supporting his ailing mother and sharp-witted sister. By a mysterious turn of events and a dead scribe's schema, Gherm finds himself with an unnaturally strong physique. Armed with the strength to kill an adult, the blessing soon became a plague upon his life after his village was attacked by slavers. Gherm escapes, of course, but at the expense of his loved ones, and an image of the slavers burned into his mind. Now under the care of a maverick master called Nerl, Gherm vows to take revenge