This isn’t a story about victory. It’s about what’s left when everything you believed in is gone.

Jonah isn’t a hero. He’s not chosen. He’s not destined.

He just wants to understand why the people he loved are gone — and who he has to become to make it mean something.

In a land ruled by those who can transform into beasts, power is inherited, enforced, and absolute. Jonah remains Grounded — locked in human skin, unchosen by fate, and haunted by grief. But when his search for truth draws others to his side, he begins to unravel more than just his past.

What starts as a quest for answers spirals into rebellion, legacy, and a kind of power none of them truly understand.

Truths buried in myth. Strength that can’t be controlled. And a world that punishes those who refuse to kneel.

This isn’t a story about winning.

It’s about pain. About survival.

About standing in the ruins of everything you were meant to be… and still moving forward.

Because sometimes surviving is the most heroic thing a person can do.