Saltborn

Author’s Note

This work was created with the assistance of AI tools for brainstorming, drafting, and editing. All final creative decisions remain my own.



Synopsis

A Song of Ice and Fire – A Tale of Tide and Blood



In the eighty-second year after Aegon’s Conquest, the world simmers beneath the surface.



The great houses in Westeros stir with ambition, the Free Cities hedge their bets with coin and shadow, and in the fractured, lawless waters of the Stepstones, gold flows faster than oaths.



And then—there’s Salt.



A stranger with no name, no past, and memories not born of this world, Salt drifts ashore in Tide’s Rest with only an axe and an instinct that bends the world around him. He can feel movement before it happens. See openings where none exist. Fight like a man born for war—though he never learned how.



He doesn't understand the power within him, only that it's real, dangerous, and waking.



As slavers from Lys trade in flesh, Braavosi merchants deal in secrets, and Myrish plots curdle in the dark, a forgotten ledger changes hands—one that could unravel fragile alliances and shift the balance of power.



Salt doesn’t seek crowns or castles. He only wants to survive. But survival breeds influence. And influence, in a place like Tide’s Rest, is only a blade’s length from command.



Before long, men will whisper his name with fear or hope.



They will call him Saltborn.