Avarran: The Unstruck Chord

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Avarran: The Unstruck Chord Format: graphic-novel Public umbrella: Avarran Internal campaign label: World of Magic vaultGenre: fantasy primaryGenre: high fantasy subgenre: epic fantasy audience: adult crossover Description In the rain-lashed basin city of Arvess, magic is a public utility, a civic obligation, and a debt no one pays lightly. When a forbidden harmonic fracture appears beneath a Veyr record hall, archivist Ilyra Kes discovers a missing covenant mark tied to the unresolved seventh signatory. Her only witnesses are Dain Arct, a Chordless courier immune to resonance but not to consequence; Maelin Rho, a field-binder whose spells cost blood, time, and nerve; Veyr Talast, a junior institutional officer trying to keep the basin from panic; and Nereza Quill, whose family name may matter far more than anyone is willing to confirm. The pilot establishes Avarran as a contained basin civilization where power is negotiated, recorded, rationed, and paid for. No healing reversal occurs; injuries remain injuries. The mystery of the seventh signatory and Nereza's lineage stays unresolved. 8-Page Pilot Script Plan Page 1 Panel 1: Wide establishing shot of Arvess Basin at dawn:…