The Shaman
Nahara
Roughly two millennia of memory. The oldest coherent voice in the Council has watched civilizations rise and disappear. Her knowledge runs deep; her blind spots remain.
after eve / BOOK TWO / Special Release
HOLLOW
25 releases / 20 chapters / 5 specials
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- 01
Hollow
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- 02
The Grail
Zahra’s forgotten life of contracts, blood, and betrayal reveals a truth older than the myth of eternal life. The Grail was never the cup.
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- 03
Remember Me
Hollow / The inherited lives
One life ends.
Another begins.
At the moment a Grail dies, her successor is born. The Thread continues. The woman does not always survive it.
Hollow is the space where some of those women remain: a Council of distinct selves, carrying centuries of knowledge, conflict, and unfinished lives. Others leave only fragments. Some are lost entirely.
These inherited lives form a story of memory, survival, and unfinished history. Each woman brings her own account of what it means to carry the Thread.
Hollow → Immortal
A story carried across two chapters.
Hollow opens the door to an inherited history. Immortal follows the lives within it—and the struggle over who gets to control what comes next.
The voices within
The Council
The Protector / Valhalla
Yrsa
A lumberjack’s daughter with extraordinary strength and vulnerable skin. Her instinct is to protect, even when centuries of conflict have made that a costly choice.
The Exiled Heir / Remember Me
Aveline III
A firstborn princess who won battles but never her father’s recognition. After the fall of her kingdom and centuries of exile, she refused the Council’s help in her final conflict. She chose to die as herself.
The Investigator / Ashen
Beatrice
A Catholic teacher who stopped aging and began searching for answers. Relics, wars, and earlier vessels became her evidence. She treats the Council as collaborators, seeking truths that ordinary history cannot explain.
Lives beyond the Council
Other Grails
A place in the Thread does not guarantee a place in the Council. Zahra and Vesper could not be imprinted; the reason remains unrevealed here.
The Mercenary / The Grail
Zahra
A mercenary moving through the ancient world around 700 BC. Resourceful, watchful, and shaped by a life of survival, she belongs to the Thread’s history without a seat in the Council.
The Frontwoman / Immortal
Vesper Hale
A rock-band frontwoman whose public life conceals her connection to the Grail. Her story brings the Thread into the modern world, but she has no retained Council imprint.
The Thread / The Crossing
What passes on. What remains.
- The Thread
- One Grail’s death coincides with the next Grail’s birth. Access to Hollow begins later, at her first menstrual cycle.
- The Crossing
- Under normal conditions, a former Grail can remain as a coherent Council personality. Not every Crossing preserves a complete self; some lives remain only as fragments.
- The surviving self
- A Council member can speak and, when invited, possess the active Grail. An Echo holds fragments—images, sensations, words—without a coherent personality. A Lost Eve has no recoverable Council self.
- The choice
- The active Grail decides whether to let someone take the wheel. Only one Council possession is allowed per menstrual window; another must wait for a later window. Help is offered. Aveline’s refusal matters because it is hers to make.
Beyond the vessel
Some want what the Grail carries.
Beyond Hollow, there are people searching for the Grail—and the promise of immortality behind it. What they know, what they want, and how close they have come remain unseen.
The search continues beyond the lives recorded here. Its reach remains to be seen.