K.S. Chandler

Dar-e-Karkheh is a prehistoric marvel: a sprawling fortress-city built entirely within the intertwined, fossilized skeletons of thirty colossal leviathans. Farhad-dar is a nimble bone-carver and rogue who races across the spinal catwalks, carving live runes into his daggers to farm the System’s kinetic skill trees while dodging patrols. Niloufar-shah is the elite captain of the Ivory Guard, armed with a mammoth-tusk shield and sworn to crush any infiltrator who threatens the city’s skeletal foundations.

When a seismic tremor activates the System’s Leviathan Siege, the entire metropolis divides into a high-stakes territory war for the central Marrow Heart. Forced onto opposite sides of a deadly factional conflict, Farhad-dar and Niloufar-shah must duel across swinging bone-bridges and hollow vertebrae. Magic in this world demands constant motion; standing still means losing the charge. To survive the factional siege, both champions must carve their way to victory before the ancestral bones collapse beneath them.

The *Sgàth-Bhràghaid* was built to conquer the primeval rivers, an eight-hundred-foot hollowed cedar behemoth powered by fifty oars and sheer nerve. But when the mooring ropes snap, the giant canoe plunges down a roaring subterranean chasm. At the helm is Donnchadh, a pilot who thrives on velocity; on the prow is Beathag, picking off blind river monsters with obsidian-tipped arrows; on the decks is Muircheartach, happily grappling amphibious predators; and in the ballast holds is Fionnghal, screaming as the water rises. The Wild-Torrent System powers their skills only as long as the boat maintains terminal speed. To survive, they must fight, row, and level up before hitting the canyon wall.