You have never seen the sun.  You have lived all your years surrounded by stone, kept alive by magical devices beyond your understanding, as your parents before you and theirs before them for centuries past.  But those devices are failing now and there is no choice but to return to the world above, the world that the heroes of legend abandoned centuries ago.  Facing the end of the world, your ancestors hid themselves so that you might one day have the chance to return.  The time has come, but what will you find there? This story draws inspiration from the fantastic setting of the Earthdawn TTRPG, but does not expect readers to know anything about it.  Please read and enjoy as a stand-alone story! New chapters will be added on Thursdays. If you would like to listen to (amateur) narrations of this story, check out my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRr1G6S_aDqD6wbNFpYOtig/featured Disclaimer requested by FASA games: Earthdawn is a registered trademark of FASA Corp, and used without license. No challenge is intended to any of FASA Corporation's associated trademarks or copyrights.