The Runes of Everice

By Celiel Dreadmyre

In Ka'rit, truth freezes before it can be spoken.

For generations, the Church of the Three-Pointed Flame has ruled beneath the shadow of Everice, a mountain of ice, stone, and impossible blue light. Those marked by runes are called chosen. Those born without them-the Canvased-are taught to labor, obey, and be grateful for survival.

Daniel has spent his life mistrusting holy answers. When Samuel Thompson, the first explorer to map Everice, dies with a warning on his lips and a hidden journal beneath his floorboards, Daniel inherits a secret the Church has killed to bury. The runes are not divine gifts. The mountain is not asleep. The catastrophe that remade the world was not what the Scriptures claim.

Now Daniel, Elizabeth, Clara, Tobin, and the hard-bitten guide Roric must follow Thompson's evidence through hidden archives, frozen passes, outlaw settlements, and the Glasswind Wastes. Every step draws them closer to the First Wound, the Canticle Core, and the truth behind the power that has kept Ka'rit afraid.

But truth does not free a city by itself. The Church has inquisitors, informants, weapons, and believers who would rather kill than admit their faith was built on a lie. Worse, Everice is not merely a mountain. It remembers. It hungers. And when its old wound begins to open, rebellion may not be enough to save the people trapped beneath it.

The Runes of Everice is a dark fantasy novel of forbidden magic, buried science, religious control, survival, sacrifice, and the cost of giving a broken city back its own history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXVNDX13
• ISBN13: 9798258071927
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"