Requiem for the Damned

In a shattered world overrun by folkloric horrors, a fallen prince is reborn as a walking corpse, bound to a cursed instrument that feeds on despair. To stave off his own decay, he must become a maestro of misery, replaying the final moments of the dead and consuming their powerful anguish. His music opens gateways to nightmare dimensions where tragedies loop for eternity. Hunted by a relentless order and its top agent—a woman whose fate is entwined with his own destruction—he struggles to control the monstrous power within. She is his fated enemy, his potential executioner, and the only anchor to his dwindling humanity. As their deadly dance unearths a world-ending conspiracy, he must confront a terrible choice: embrace the all-consuming darkness to protect his one connection to the light, or be erased by it forever.