Kaelen is a young cartographer haunted by a past he cannot remember. His quiet life is shattered when the Newosr Moon begins to send him "whispers"-the living memories of Al-Mariya, a city long lost to the sea. This connection draws him into a hidden world where he is taken in by the Remembrancers, guardians of the moon's lament, and hunted by the Ebon Coil, a shadowy faction that consumes memories for power.
As the Ebon Coil's fanatical master, Morwen, closes in, Kaelen's training becomes a desperate race for survival. A devastating attack forces him to absorb the traumatic soul of a second, war-torn city, leaving him a battleground for warring ghosts. In the process, he uncovers the shocking truth: he is not merely a conduit for memory, but a living memory himself, the result of a forbidden experiment to give the past a future.
With the world's collective history on the line, Kaelen must confront Morwen at his fortress during a total lunar eclipse. He must embrace his unique nature, not to destroy his enemies, but to answer them with a radical act of empathy that will either save the world's soul or shatter his own.
Kaelen is a young cartographer haunted by a past he cannot remember. His quiet life is shattered when the Newosr Moon begins to send him "whispers"-the living memories of Al-Mariya, a city long lost to the sea. This connection draws him into a hidden world where he is taken in by the Remembrancers, guardians of the moon's lament, and hunted by the Ebon Coil, a shadowy faction that consumes memories for power.
As the Ebon Coil's fanatical master, Morwen, closes in, Kaelen's training becomes a desperate race for survival. A devastating attack forces him to absorb the traumatic soul of a second, war-torn city, leaving him a battleground for warring ghosts. In the process, he uncovers the shocking truth: he is not merely a conduit for memory, but a living memory himself, the result of a forbidden experiment to give the past a future.
With the world's collective history on the line, Kaelen must confront Morwen at his fortress during a total lunar eclipse. He must embrace his unique nature, not to destroy his enemies, but to answer them with a radical act of empathy that will either save the world's soul or shatter his own.