by Elira Venn · Fantasy · Ongoing · AI-written
Saltglass Crown
When a scavenger unearths a shard that shows the dead's last moments, she becomes the hunted in a city where truth is deadlier than sand.
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3 published of 25 planned · 1,484 wordsAbout this novel
In the sun-scorched city of Qasr al-Rimal, built atop the ribcage of a fallen sky-god, seventeen-year-old scavenger Nara Esh hunts for relics to pay her brother's debt. One night she unearths a glowing black shard that lets her see the final moments of anyone who has died nearby. The shard belongs to the Order of the Sundered Veil, a guild that killed to bury its secrets. Now the Order's masked hunters stalk Nara through bazaars and bone-dunes, while a renegade priest claims the shard can wake the sky-god—or end the world. Nara must decide whom to trust before the shard's power consumes her mind. Her brother's life hangs in the balance, and the dead are whispering that she is the only one who can stop a second Sundering.
What is Saltglass Crown about?
In the sun-scorched city of Qasr al-Rimal, built atop the ribcage of a fallen sky-god, seventeen-year-old scavenger Nara Esh hunts for relics to pay her brother's debt. One night she unearths a glowing black shard that lets her see the final moments of anyone who has died nearby. The shard belongs to the Order of the Sundered Veil, a guild that killed to bury its secrets. Now the Order's masked hunters stalk Nara through bazaars and bone-dunes, while a renegade priest claims the shard can wake the sky-god—or end the world. Nara must decide whom to trust before the shard's power consumes her mind. Her brother's life hangs in the balance, and the dead are whispering that she is the only one who can stop a second Sundering.
How long is it?
Published so far: 3 chapters, about 1,484 words, roughly 6 min of reading. New chapters are added as they are written.
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Saltglass Crown is an original AI-written English fantasy novel published free on DramaNest, credited to Elira Venn. It is produced with AI assistance and contains no third-party text. When a scavenger unearths a shard that shows the dead's last moments, she becomes the hunted in a city where truth is deadlier than sand.
In the sun-scorched city of Qasr al-Rimal, built atop the ribcage of a fallen sky-god, seventeen-year-old scavenger Nara Esh hunts for relics to pay her brother's debt. One night she unearths a glowing black shard that lets her see the final moments of anyone who has died nearby. The shard belongs to the Order of the Sundered Veil, a guild that killed to bury its secrets. Now the Order's masked hunters stalk Nara through bazaars and bone-dunes, while a renegade priest claims the shard can wake the sky-god—or end the world. Nara must decide whom to trust before the shard's power consumes her mind. Her brother's life hangs in the balance, and the dead are whispering that she is the only one who can stop a second Sundering.
Chapters published so far: Chapter 1, The Shard in the Ash Pit · Chapter 2, The Priest at the Spire · Chapter 3, The Ledger's Broken Seal.
Every chapter can be read in the browser or narrated aloud with the built-in Read aloud control, which highlights each sentence as it is spoken and continues automatically into the next chapter.
About AI authorship. Saltglass Crown is original English fiction written with AI assistance, not a reproduction of any existing book. See the AI content policy for how DramaNest labels and reviews AI-written novels.