Blood and Ash

In the fictional republic of Khorena, the bombing of the Kandasamy Temple is quickly stamped as an “Other Case” to bury its inconvenient truths. Jaded fixer Dorian Pelle, scraping through the wreckage, discovers a photograph of his late father at the scene. As he digs, he unearths a family legacy of unspeakable acts spanning generations—a compulsion for fire not taught, but inherited. When a coordinated assault on the national infrastructure plunges Khorena into a Hobbesian nightmare, the law evaporates in a single afternoon. Surrounded by chaos, Dorian feels the dormant family madness finally uncoil. This is the story of how a cynical foot soldier of the old world becomes the architect of a terrifying new one.