Ashes in White

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In a world where the veil between the living and the spiritual begins to fray, a solitary traveler moves through snowfall and silence—his past buried beneath layers of ice and time.

Known only as Shiro, he is a beastman with ember-red eyes, a mask veiling the weight of loss, and a pendant tethered to a truth he has yet to understand.

But long ago, he was Artemund—a warrior-king who halted a war by casting his people into ruin. Now reborn in a far-off monastery with no memory of that life, he is raised by monks, trained by the sage Gekko, and stalked by dreams of ruin and frost.

As those memories begin to return, so too does the shadow of the legacy he tried to forget.

Beneath a sky of falling snow, a boy with ember-red eyes awakens in a land that does not know his name. Cloaked in silence, guided by no memory, he wanders through frostbitten paths with only a pendant at his neck and a mask over his grief.

They call him Shiro now—a beastman raised in a monastery, trained by monks, and haunted by dreams of a world buried beneath ice and flame. But long ago, before the snow took his name, he was something else.

A king.A weapon.A curse.

As fragments of a forgotten past begin to surface, Shiro must confront the legacy of Artemund—the warrior who ended a war by sacrificing everything. In a world where the living and the spiritual intertwine, and the cold whispers truths long buried, Shiro walks a path paved with memories he once chose to forget.

And the snow remembers everything.