Book One of the Lightkeeper Saga
HEIRS
OF ASH
The old kingdom fell to a plague that would not let its dead lie still. Caleb Windrake walks its ruins with a blade called Lightkeeper and a cursed companion at his side. One sword against a rising horde. Told in prose and in original art.
By Will Willavize
The World
A kingdom that could not keep its dead
When the plague took the old realm, it did not stop at dying. The fallen rose with pale light behind their eyes and filled the roads the living no longer walk. What stands against them now is not an army. It is a handful of the breathing, a stolen blade, and whatever the Cursed Sage still remembers of the craft that damned her.
The Horde
The dead outnumber the living, and they are patient
The Cast
Three who walk the ash
Character studies from Will's own hand. Each began as a drawing long before a chapter. See the full plates in the gallery.
The Saga Unfolds
One story. A shelf still being written.
Heirs of Ash is the first of four volumes. The road ahead is already mapped. Each new book lights another beacon along it.
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Book One
Heirs of Ash
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From the Page
“Lightkeeper drank the moonlight and gave none of it back. Caleb held the blade the way a man holds a lantern in a house he knows is not empty, certain the dark was full, unsure of what it hid.”
From Heirs of Ash, Chapter One
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