Words are Debts

​In a world where reality is a manuscript, power isn’t about learning spells. It’s about Syntax.

​In the Kingdom of Eins, every living being is bound by a True Name a living language fragment of the universe that dictates their fate, their magic, and their place in the story. To know your True Name is to wield the primal language of existence.

​Uzo Melbourne doesn't have one.
​He is nameless. An unauthorized draft. A walking Glitch in a perfectly formatted world.

​Hunted by the Waning King a tyrant who treats reality like a rough draft and edits his citizens into submission Uzo's very existence is a crime. Worse, his body is bleeding "Null-Ink," a destructive, redacted magic that is slowly eating him alive.

​To survive, Uzo must journey to the edges of the Kingdom to unravel the ancient myths behind the origins of language itself. But the King's forces are relentless. Uzo must face down Grand Scribes who weaponize the distance between words, and survive the Royal Archives a dumping ground guarded by "Run-On Sentences" made of stitched-together flesh, and "The Blanks," faceless assassins that steal your very definition.
​He can't just find his True Name. He’s going to have to write his own.
​Even if it means deleting the King's entire manuscript to do it.

​Expect:

​A Unique Hard-Magic System: Battles fought with grammar, syntax, resonance, and redaction.

​Eldritch Dark Fantasy: Body horror, brutal combat, and psychological stakes where losing means being edited out of existence.

​Anti-Hero Progression: A nameless outcast teaming up with a mute barbarian giant, a lazy mastermind, and a mad flesh-doctor etc to break the rules of reality.

Hey readers 😅. Season 2 is right on its way.


Chapter 29 - Season 2