Nothing Stays Written
Nothing Stays Written
In the city of Oakhaven, the pen is mightier than the sword—because the pen decides if the sword exists at all.
The Archivist’s Hall stands as a monolith of silence and control, a place where history is not just recorded, but enforced. Within its walls, the Scriptorium’s scribes labor over the "Founding Ledger," using ink drawn from their own veins to pin reality to the page. Once a name is written, a fate is sealed.
Elara Vance is a ghost in the machine. Armed with forged credentials and a desperate hope, she infiltrates the Hall to find her sister, Kaelen, who was "erased" by the state. But the Scriptorium is more than a bureaucracy; it is a slaughterhouse of identity.
As Elara rises through the ranks, she discovers the horrific truth behind the Hall's order: Recalibration. The missing citizens haven't just been imprisoned; they have been processed into "binding agents"—living mortar used to hold the Archive’s logic together. And Kaelen is already part of the walls.
With the "living ink" beginning to infect her own blood, granting her memories that aren't hers and power she doesn't understand, Elara faces an impossible choice. To save the only family she has left, she must challenge the First Keeper and threaten the very foundation of Oakhaven.
To save her sister, Elara Vance will have to unwrite the world.