fantasy
Ciarán Hollowmere

2
Across quiet groves and ancient paths, there are those who do not seek power loudly.
They listen.
To the turning of leaves.
To the breath of the earth.
To the old language carried in root and stone.
He is one of them.
A keeper of living knowledge, a reader of patterns written not in stars but in soil, memory, and time itself.
His magic is not cast in bursts.
It is grown.
Tended like a fire beneath the surface,
patient, deliberate, and deeply rooted.
Where others reach outward,
he draws inward into the unseen currents that bind all things.
Beneath the World Tree, he does not announce himself.
He simply stands…
and the roots recognize him.