Raptoraem: Book I

In the drowned, lawless city of Raptøræm, survival belongs to those ruthless enough to seize it.

Erik Mordiger, known as the Black Maw, has spent years turning a broken refuge into a city that can stand against empires. Crime lord, strategist, reluctant statesman, and even more reluctant father, he rules through a volatile balance of violence, loyalty, and carefully cultivated myth.

But Raptøræm’s independence is fragile. Foreign powers circle its borders, old alliances begin to fracture, and the past Mordiger has buried keeps clawing its way back into the present. At the center of it all is Stryx, the dangerous young ward he never intended to raise, whose future may prove inseparable from the city’s own.

Blending dark fantasy, gaslamp intrigue, political warfare, crime-family dynamics, and found family, Raptøræm is a nonlinear mythpunk saga about power, memory, loyalty, and the brutal cost of building something free.

Freedom costs blood. So does magic.