🧟‍♂️ Where the Dead Keep Watch

The dead never lied. The living did. In Koros, priests burn heretics, nobles bury truths & graves outnumber honest men. Deep within the Forbidden Woods, you live among spirits, tombs & old pacts. Villagers call you monster, witch, corpse-speaker. Then a hunted woman arrives at your door. Branded heretic, condemned to die, Gwen flees into the only place her pursuers fear. She expects a monster. Instead she finds mercy. The woods remember. The dead listen. Survival may demand trust from two people with every reason to fear one another. --- Strong dark-romance progression loop, giving Gwen more agency and creates multiple long-term story paths (romance, tragedy, betrayal, obsession, partnership, corruption, redemption, etc.) without locking the narrative into any single outcome.