What remains of a mind when it remembers having died before?

Abhitaraṅgaḥ has already lived through the end of the world.

In one life, he watched a civilization that believed itself governed by reason turn knowledge into an instrument of cruelty. He lost his family, his home, and eventually his own life. Reborn into a world of scholars, priests, mathematics, and ancient texts, he is given another existence.

Then his second life is taken from him as well.

From the ruins emerges Andhadarśinī, an intelligence older than humanity, who once existed without distinction, without self, and without love. Alongside her stands Aeilimnā́tis, a primordial being whose memories reach beyond human history and whose grief carries the possibility of annihilation.

Three minds. Three bodies. One consciousness forced upon them.

Their union is neither blessing nor simple communion. It is a catastrophe of identity. Each must learn to live with the memories, desires, fears, and knowledge of the others without allowing the self to disappear.

Their search for forbidden knowledge carries them through sacred ruins, mathematical theorems, ancient records, geological catastrophes, warfare, and the buried histories of civilizations that have vanished without anyone left to remember them. At the center of their quest lies the Sacred Bow, an object whose recovery will force them to confront the consequences of what they are capable of doing.

As Abhitaraṅgaḥ becomes first a warrior and then an unwilling king, the three are drawn into the machinery of kingdoms and war. They must reckon with questions for which power provides no easy answer:

Can vengeance ever restore what has been destroyed?

Does understanding suffering make one responsible for relieving it?

What becomes of justice when the punishment itself can become another atrocity?

And if three consciousnesses can share one existence, where does one self end and another begin?

Saṃkocavimarśa is the first volume of ABYSS, an epic philosophical fantasy concerned not only with gods, kingdoms, and war, but with consciousness itself.

It is a story of grief and intellectual inheritance, of memory and mortality, of violence and repair, of knowledge that liberates and knowledge that wounds.

And beneath it all lies a question that follows its characters from the first page to the edge of the unknown:

If knowledge gives you the power to change the world, what does it make you responsible for?

ABYSS begins here.