When the Void Sea Called

In the year 2994 AC, during the brutal age known as the Fractured Expansion, the galaxy fears one name above most others: Eirikr Vane, the disgraced void-raider captain who abandoned twenty thousand settlers to die during the infamous Red Void Storm.Aboard his ancient black-sailed warship, The Grave of Kings, Eirikr survives as an outlaw drifting along the edge of mapped space, hunted by guilt and haunted by whispers he hears in the silence between stars.When a dead pilgrim vessel called Saint Varro’s Mercy returns from the forbidden dead sectors, Drakeharbour Station descends into horror. The ship carries no living crew, only corrupted dead driven by whispers from beyond reality itself. As the stars begin vanishing from the void, Eirikr discovers the terrifying truth hidden by mankind for centuries:Beyond reality lies a black sea beneath creation, an endless abyss of grief, memory, and ancient hunger known only in forgotten records from the First Breach Wars.Together with the young seer Astrid Volmark, the immortal gatekeeper Freyja Valdyr, the battle-worn Haldor Rusk, and the dying crusader Aldric Mordane, Eirikr is drawn into a collapsing breach between worlds where the legendary Mourning Fleet returns from beneath the black sea.At the centre of that abyss stands the Throne Beneath All Thrones — a prison sustained for centuries by kings who willingly chained themselves to endless suffering in order to hold the sea back from humanity.As reality begins drowning beneath ancient horrors, Eirikr must confront the guilt that has consumed him since the Red Void Storm. But the sea does not conquer through war.It conquers through surrender.Faced with an impossible choice, Eirikr refuses to become another servant of endless grief. Instead, he changes the throne itself, freeing the trapped souls bound beneath the sea and forcing the black ocean back beyond reality.Drakeharbour survives only in ruins. The dead sectors remain sealed — for now. Yet the sea still dreams beneath creation, and somewhere in the darkness ancient gates continue waiting to reopen.Because the black sea has learned one dangerous truth:There exists at least one man capable of saying no. Read more