The Tide Inside the Mountain

Dwarven stone diver Dain Voss repairs the pressure gates of a mountain whose caverns rise and fall with an impossible inland tide. When voices begin arriving through sealed rock, his search for a missing brother draws him into a struggle over which buried truths a city can survive hearing.

ShadowTeen & up · PG-13Subterranean awe, maritime mystery, intimate loyalty and quiet dreadfull cast audio

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Series DNA

A dwarven stone diver investigates a tidal sea trapped inside a mountain, while the city's amphibious merfolk gate warden conceals the living settlement below and an elderly male rope-maker recognizes the signals coming through the rock.

Cast

Dain Voss

protagonist · wants Find his missing brother and bring the trapped workers home

Warden Neris Fell

antagonist · wants Keep the upper city from drowning

Orren Pike

witness · wants Deliver the message he once agreed to bury

The Tide Inside the Mountain

5,074 published words · 80,000 planned

Ch. 1: The Tide Inside the Mountain (sample)