Unsouled

by Will Wight

Wei Shi Lindon has been told his entire life that he will never advance — branded Unsouled in a valley where power is everything. When a dying Abidan Judge shows him a vision of Sacred Valley's destruction, he must find a way to grow strong enough to save everyone who ever looked down on him.

13 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Elder Whisper — An ancient white fox spirit who has lived in Sacred Valley longer than any clan — the only being who knows the truth about the valley's cage.
• Li Markuth — A Sacred Valley exile who left the valley, gained real power, and returns as a conqueror — the first proof that the world outside exists.
• Suriel — A Judge of the Abidan — a being of incomprehensible power who appears briefly in Sacred Valley and changes Lindon's life with a single vision.
• The Blood Shadow — A parasitic remnant bonded to Yerin's back — a fragment of the Bleeding Phoenix that killed her master, now growing inside her.
• The Sage of the Endless Sword — Yerin's master — a true Sage who came to Sacred Valley and died fighting a Dreadgod's spawn to protect his disciple.
• Wei Shi Kelsa — Lindon's older sister — talented, protective, and quietly ashamed of how the clan treats him.
• Wei Shi Lindon — The only Unsouled in Sacred Valley — a young man with a crippled spirit, a polite tongue, and a desperate refusal to accept that this is all he'll eve
• Yerin — A fierce, blood-streaked girl from outside the valley, carrying a dead Sage's sword and a parasite growing on her back — the most dangerous person Lin

Locations

• Heaven's Glory School — The most powerful school in Sacred Valley — arrogant Jades who sit atop Mount Samara and consider themselves the peak of the sacred arts.
• Mount Samara — The sacred peak at the heart of the valley — home to the ancestral orus trees whose roots glow with the only power Sacred Valley's clans revere.
• Sacred Valley — The only world Lindon has ever known — a mountain-ringed valley where Jade is the pinnacle and no one suspects they are trapped inside a cage.

Items

• Suriel's Marble — A glass marble left by a dying god — it contains a vision of Sacred Valley's destruction and a faint connection to something beyond this world.
• The Sacred Arts — The power system of Cradle — cycling vital aura through madra channels to strengthen body and spirit. In Sacred Valley, it's a shadow of what it could

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