The Marrow Thief RETURNS | The City of Glass Chains | 1h Dark Fantasy Story

Описание: ⚗️ THE MARROW THIEF: THE CITY OF GLASS CHAINS ⚗️

Kael and Yenna are back. But this time, they're ghosts — and the city they've been pushed into is nothing like Ashenmere.

Velundra looks beautiful. Clean canals, well-dressed citizens, a thriving market. No obvious mass graves, no shuffling zombie servants, no iron-fisted rulers who flaunt their immortality.

But every building in the city is wrapped in glass chains that pulse with stolen soul-energy. 180,000 living people who don't know they're addicted to marrow essence in the water supply. 400,000 Hollow servants so perfectly curated they're almost indistinguishable from the living.

And something beneath the Glass Court's three ruling families — something locked inside the chains, trying to get out.

The sequel to The Marrow Thief picks up with Kael and Yenna returning from beyond death, pushed by some unseen force toward the last major Marrow Lord stronghold. Joined by Thessaly — a reckless young pamphleteer — and Aldric — the dead archivist who's been waiting 71 years for someone capable of finishing what he started — they face a system more insidious than anything they dismantled in Ashenmere.

Because this time, breaking the chains might hurt the people they're trying to free.

⏱️ LENGTH: 68 minutes
🎭 GENRE: Dark Fantasy / Heist / Ghost Story
✨ THEMES: Hidden exploitation, complicity, the cost of liberation, what comes after death

⚠️ CONTENT WARNINGS:
Death and undead themes
Exploitation / soul theft
Withdrawal / dependency themes (metaphorical)
Mild body horror
References to grief and loss

🔥 PERFECT FOR FANS OF:
The Marrow Thief Part 1 (obviously!)
Six of Crows — ensemble heist, morally complex
Gideon the Ninth — necromancy, found family
His Dark Materials — souls, exploitation, liberation
The Good Place — what comes after death, purpose


⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Prologue: What Comes After After
06:30 - Part I: The Glass City
22:15 - Part II: The Archivist
36:40 - Part III: The Heist That Couldn't Happen
50:25 - Part IV: The Night of Glass
58:10 - Part V: After the Breaking
01:05:30 - Epilogue: Aldric's Note


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