Scales at War. Echoes of Vael’arith, #3

In the land of Vael'arith, memory is power-and war is never clean. The Kaedrim crusade marches east, driven by faith and fear, determined to erase the dravhen from history. For Captain Valen and his weary host, every step means more sacrifice, more rituals, more emberstones carved from the pain and memories of friend and foe alike. But as the crusaders close in on the last dravhen nest, the true cost of fanaticism reveals itself: guilt that gnaws like fire, magic that corrupts the soul, and victories that leave nothing behind but ash.
Told from both sides of the conflict, Scales at War is a dark fantasy novella of war, loss, and the stories we force the world to forget. In Vael'arith, even the victors are haunted, and the greatest wounds are those no one dares to remember.