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Vigor Mortis
by Thundamoo
A completed dark fantasy progression story with teeth: intimate, strange, emotionally messy, and very clear about the cost of power.
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A starving girl in a floating-island theocracy discovers soul-eating power, then has to survive gods, poverty, found family, and the moral cost of becoming monstrous.
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