The Bleeding Archive

“To be forgotten is to die. To be remembered too much is to break.” In a world born from the memories of a fallen diety, life endures by the faint glow of its own remembrance. Every soul bears a Spiral Vein, a mark that measures how strongly the world recalls their existence. The loved shine bright. The ignored fade into silence. When the mark dims completely, the body vanishes, erased from the living Archive that shapes all reality. But when remembrance grows too strong, when a soul is worshipped, feared, or immortalized, the world begins to bleed once more. Amid collapsing cities and hollow-eyed saints, a nameless laborer claws his way out of the ruins of a mine. His mark is fading, his memories are thinning, and he stands on the edge of vanishing. To live, he must be remembered. To be remembered, he must act. And in a world where every emotion can wound the divine, even survival is a stain.