The Shadow Binding™

“Your shadow isn’t yours—it’s the contract you never signed.” A chilling look at the deals darkness makes with us.

Lose your shadow, lose your soul. Set in the Caucasus borderlands, The Shadow Binding™ binds national identity to literal shadow magic. When modernization breaks an ancient pact, darkness rebels. A historian becomes a reluctant warrior-scholar, battling the Dziriti—the vengeful collective of unbound shadows—amid monasteries, vaults, and political collapse. Combines prestige horror, historical fantasy, and political thriller tension, with the Caucasus itself staged as character. Franchise hooks include anthologies, festivals, and projection-mapped live activations.