C.L. Figueroa

The world ended not with conquest - but with fire. In the dying days of the war with Rome, Hannibal Barca discovers something buried in the hills of Iberia - a relic not made by human hands. It hums with power. It promises victory. But it awakens a judgment older than empires. The sky burns. The Earth falls silent. Two thousand years later, the Forgeborn emerge from beneath the ruins - children of ash, memory, and myth.
Led by Kaela Embermantle, they seek not just survival. but reclamation. The Forgeborn Chronicles is a mythic short story about the beginning of a new age - forged in stone, tempered by loss, and lit by the last embers of a broken world.