The Oathbound
Bound by a blood-oath to your family's destroyer, you must choose between saving them and cursing your blood forever.
You are the last of a proud lineage, bound by an unbreakable blood-oath to serve the house that annihilated your kin. Your contract compels you to find the lost treasure that will restore their throne—but every instinct screams sabotage. As the moonrise deadline looms, the final clause threatens death if you fail, and eternal curse if you succeed. With your ancestral honor and the fate of two bloodlines hanging in the balance, you must navigate treacherous dungeons, deadly rivals, and the pull of an impossible loyalty. The Oathbound is a gritty adventure of survival and betrayal, perfect for fans of moral dilemmas and high-stakes fantasy quests.
The story begins
The brand on your forearm flared white-hot as you crossed the citadel’s threshold, a pulse of pain that synced with the distant toll of the evening bell. Moonrise in four hours. The oath’s clock, relentless.
You moved through the torch-lit corridor with the practiced silence of a relic-finder, your boots finding the worn grooves in the stone where a thousand guards had paced before you. Dust and old incense hung in the air, thick as the weight of the Ashford name you carried. Ahead, the grand doors to Lysandra’s hall stood ajar, spilling golden light and the murmur of voices—one sharp and imperious, the other low, familiar.
You halted at the edge of the shadows. Through the gap, you saw her: Lysandra, last of the conqueror line, standing before a map of the Shattered Sea, her silver hair unbound, her chin lifted in that way that meant she was about to demand something impossible. Beside her, head bowed, stood Kael. Your childhood friend. Your betrayer.
His eyes found yours through the crack in the door. Recognition flickered—then guilt, quick and swallowed.
“Ah,” Lysandra said, not turning. “The Ashford relic-finder arrives at last. Do come in. We have much to discuss before you drown.”
What happens next is up to you.
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