Ashen | A Chronicle of the Scorchlands

Imagine a world now.

Where water is so scarce that in some places, wells with depths of over hundreds of miles are needed to gather any.

Where trees grow slow and live long. Rising as tall as mountains and stretching above the skies, and the roots down beneath the ground.

A world where humans and other sentient beings build settlements around the few water holes and make a life from there.

Where monsters and beasts threaten the very existence of this life everyday in a constant battle for water.

A boy lived in one such watering hole.