Drakko
A farmer's son turned reluctant blade, a soul who wanted only a quiet life and was given fire instead.
The Story
Out of betrayal, something other awakens
They burned his world to silence, and from that silence, something rose.
Once a farmer's son and humble apprentice of the long-forgotten spiritual arts, Drakko carried only the quiet hopes of an ordinary life. With his wife Lavanya expecting their long-dreamed child, he vows to lay down the sword after one last job. But the man he is sent to kill, the man he was always destined to meet, breaks that vow before it can ever be kept.
The Dark One whispers of a fate only the free, the liberated, the awakened can comprehend. A gift is given. The last is never the last.
Driven again by the merciless necessity of a cruel world, Drakko must act, and act, and watch as the life he built turns betrayed and broken, leaving nothing of the man who began the journey. Out of betrayal. Out of loss. Out of unquenchable rage: something other awakens; someone other is born.
When everything has been stripped away and reduced to ash, what remains of the person who survived?
The Curse is told through poetic verse, dark prose, and gothic sequential art. It places spiritual transformation inside a violent world, where grief can lead towards understanding or harden into rage.
Readers of Berserk, The Sandman, Monstress, or The Crow may recognise its interest in grief, moral injury, gothic imagery, and the cost of surviving violence. The Curse approaches those concerns through its own mixture of verse, prose, and sequential art.
