The Mountain

The world is falling into ruin. Forests wither, daylight fades, and the northern Shadow spreads as Giants and Fiends rise from myth to reality. In the midst of this unraveling stands Arnfinn, a shepherd marked by loss, carrying the memory of Agnes, the girl whose kindness once pulled him back from darkness.

Her death shatters the last piece of warmth in his life. Desperate, Arnfinn begins a perilous journey toward the Mountain, the highest point of the world and the heart of countless legends. Some say that wishes made upon its peak can overturn fate itself. Arnfinn clings to that hope.

Yet the road north is no path of salvation. It is a descent into shadows where truth and illusion blur, where old nightmares, including the tale of a black unicorn, slip into waking life. With every step he is drawn deeper into questions he does not yet know how to ask. What if the Mountain holds not the answer he imagines, but a truth about Agnes, and about himself, that he is only beginning to understand?

"The Mountain" is a sweeping, poetic fantasy for readers of Tolkien, a story of love, grief, and a journey that may lead somewhere the heart never expected.