The Rosary of the Grove

animal metropolis built on a petrified world-tree. Districts hang like prayer beads over a fog-choked abyss. With no humans, civilized beasts face The Velvet Bleed—a parasitic red moss that turns fur and bone into hollow, weeping abominations.Avian oligarchs hide in high silver spires, carnivore guilds run soot-stained industrial mid-levels, and mice suffer in the pulsing, quarantined roots. To survive, heroes must brave both the madness of the rot and the mutated monsters stalking the dark