Lightbringer by boneturtle

I’ve never heard this story told outside our village, but my friend, it’s about you as well as us. Your life is also forfeit to the Lightbringer who mended the chaos, and the chaos which breathed the Lightbringer to life.

In a lonely valley where darkness laps at the ragged shore of reality, there rests a village where the people are reborn each time they die. Though they’ve forgotten their past lives, they faithfully maintain their ancient festival to coax the light back whenever the darkness takes hold.

In this village where no one visits, a man named Ashe arrives. Beloved, yet cursed to be forgotten by those he holds most dear, he waits in the ever-growing darkness for someone who may never return. The villagers beg him to give up, to play the part of the Lightbringer and marry someone else.

Then a new stranger arrives, one who may hold the key to breaking this cycle of darkness once and for all.