novel Doomhaven Odyssey
Doomhaven
Table of contents
Arc Wraithlands
Zuberi, Lisa, Hanz, Eli, and Shifty awaken in the lethal chaos of Doomhaven, each alone and carrying the scars of shattered lives. They resonate with the tune of exile, family loss, addiction, engineered alienation, and the ache for human connection.
The landscape is both mysteriously beautiful and deadly. Survival demands skills they barely remember, and to prevail demands they place their trust in strangers with motives as muddy as their own histories. But before they can struggle to trust, having awoken in separate parts of this world eager to claim their lives, they must come together.
Alone at first then together, they face strange beasts, poisonous fruits, and predatory fauna as they navigate strange savannahs, dense jungles, and haunted swamps. Every small triumph, over nature or each other, lays the foundation for bonds that will be stressed to the breaking point.
In their struggles, brought together by providence and something more, the strange bedfellows discover they are not defenseless. Faced with the horrors of this strange land, uncanny abilities awaken in each. Zuberi’s inhuman strength, Lisa’s prophetic flickers, Hanz’s shadow-calling, Eli’s empathy, and Shifty’s surreal adaptability become both tools and temptations. When they finally defeat a foe that has haunted them since their awakening, Root reveals herself to them and answers their questions, although they soon realize the most she speaks, the more lost and desperate their prospects seem to be. Before vanishing again, she sets them on the Serpent’s path and promises to meet them again after they have completed their next trial.
Chapter A Hunter's Path
Survive the Hunt
Doomhaven, Book One
Chapter 1: A Hunter’s Path
The hum came first. It was low and melodic, threading through Zuberi’s groggy mind like a song once cherished, now halfremembered. Then awareness crashed over him, his body jerking as if pulled by invisible chains. Each breath burne
Chapter Uneasy Alliance
Chapter 2
An Uneasy Alliance
After Zuberi reached the crystal formations, he turned, ready to to grab the spear of the machete, whichever would prove adequate to fight the colossal beast on his tail. There was nothing. Not even a swaying branch where, moment before, Zuberi would have sworn whole
Chapter Azure Death
Chapter 3
Azure Death
Traveling with Hanz was trying to say the least. Their alliance, forged in battle against the horned beast, still felt as fragile as a spring sprout. And yet, Zuberi had the impression he alone realized this. He moved with predatory efficiency, senses alert to the jungl
Chapter Strained Steps
Chapter 4
Strained Steps
The roar, harassing and looming, pursued them for what felt like hours. Unconscious, Lisa was a heavy in Zuberi's arms, her stillness a contrast to the rush that thrummed in his own veins. He burst through a final curtain of broad, silverveined leaves and stumbled as