Enter the World of Blightshade

Enter the World of Blightshade

Clutched in the roots of an ancient forest lies the city of Veil—a modern witch society where the lines between the magical and mundane run thin.

Ivy consumes the university of Veil where students mix Charging potions into their energy drinks to survive all-nighters. Blooming moss grows thick on the hospital where Healers and Doctors work side by side. Spell components flower from the cracks in the sidewalk and magic blooms in rich, lush manifestations of olive blossoms, hyssop, irises, and lily of the valley.

But strange things lurk in the dark.

Beyond the city limits, spirits haunt the forest, monsters make their homes in the earth, and a power beyond measure pulses from the heart of the woods.

As a Curse Crafter, Lorne Atwater doesn’t belong among other witches. He doesn’t even belong in his own family. His magic is rare and unwelcomed, and a mysterious blight only makes him more volatile. Terrified of rejection, Lorne isolates himself first and hides in an icy shell of perfection.

But the blight is rotting him out.

Finding a cure will force Lorne to accept the magic he’s despised, face the relationships he’s severed, and expose just how deep the rot runs.

The world of Blightshade was an absolute joy to create because no one could stop me from making the fantasy world I would want to live in.

✨A modern city enmeshed with a living forest
✨A magic system built around flower language
✨A world where every shop and street corner was jam-packed with all the beauty, magic, and macabre little trinkets I always wish I could find

Wanna see what your magic type would be and where you fit in the world of Blightshade?

Special thanks to LuckyMaggiePie (on X, Instagram, and Tiktok) who did the beautiful sketches of the city of Veil in all its charming, overgrown glory. Mags is currently a part of an all-queer, entirely homebrewed DND podcast called Mystic Muses. If that sounds up your alley, check it out @MysticMusesDND!

Blightshade is Alison Wright's dark fantasy debut following Lorne, a vain witch with corrupted magic. Lorne's quest for a cure will expose his diseased powers, entangle his fate in a knot of unstable relationships, and force him to face the very monster that blighted him.