Carrion of the Jebel

When armies butcher each other in the valleys of Jebel-Assani, the sky weeps monsters. Mounir al-Ghabara makes his living scraping them off the rocks. Armed with a cleaver and climbing hooks, he harvests the shimmering plumage and cold-burning fat of lesser gods that crash into the mountain passes. The garrison warlord needs those feathers to shatter the enemy's siege lines, but every celestial carcass brought behind the walls brings an uncanny plague. The dead gods' cries infect the soldiers with waking nightmares, and their rotting marrow breeds parasitic horrors in the drinking water. Mounir must harvest the greatest fallen titan on the peaks before the garrison tears itself apart from the inside out, driven by his stubborn desire to hoard enough god-down to weave a pair of wings and abandon the doomed war entirely.