CONTENT WARNING
The Ashrivers projects are works of mature dark fantasy intended for adult readers. Across both narratives, readers may encounter graphic fantasy violence; blood, gore, mutilation, torture, executions, warfare, massacre, death, and disturbing injuries; slavery, trafficking, captivity, imprisonment, and the abuse, exploitation, or endangerment of children and other vulnerable persons; psychological abuse, coercive control, indoctrination, mind control, memory manipulation, nightmares, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and other depictions of severe trauma; grief, bereavement, self-injury, suicidal themes, and mental-health crises; body horror, magical alteration, undeath, corruption, possession, cultic and infernal imagery, and cosmic horror; harm to animals and fantastical creatures; and detailed reproductive and medical material, including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, surgical intervention, hemorrhage, and threats to the lives of a mother and child. The narratives also contain adult romantic and sexual themes, complicated family relationships, moral injury, institutional cruelty, religious and political extremism, and the lasting consequences of abuse and violence.
These subjects appear within stories centered upon survival, chosen family, accountability, recovery, restorative justice, and the endurance of love after trauma. Nevertheless, some scenes are emotionally intense, psychologically distressing, or graphically described. The nature and severity of the material vary throughout both projects, and this notice cannot anticipate every individual sensitivity. Reader discretion is strongly advised.
Summary
In Sigil, every door leads somewhere—and some should never be opened.
At six years old, Thora Ashrivers is placed upon a clandestine auction block and purchased by Mistress Roya, a wealthy and feared hag who never intended to bring home a child. The transaction should have condemned Thora to another form of captivity. Instead, within Roya’s sprawling compound of kobolds, apothecaries, forges, stables, and guarded thresholds, it becomes the beginning of something neither of them understands. Thora is fed. Educated. Armed. Taught to survive. Yet no one can explain the surname she carries—or why certain powers seem to recognize it.
Years later, a grieving warrior named Cera enters Thora’s life, and the fragile world built around them begins to widen. Their devotion will be tested by haunted lands, impossible choices, weapons with intentions of their own, and forces that regard love as a weakness to be exploited. Somewhere beyond remembered history lies the truth of Ashrivers: a vanished people, a forbidden inheritance, and evidence that their disappearance was neither accidental nor complete.
Then come the dreams—of unfamiliar stars, corrupted memories, and a black symbol gathering the abandoned beneath its promise of belonging. What begins with a child sold in the impossible streets of Sigil becomes the story of a family standing against a legacy determined to claim them.
Some histories are forgotten.
Some are erased.
And some have been waiting for the last survivor to remember.
Fan Content Notice
Ashrivers, the Ascendance of Thora, Cera, and Misty
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