Cassian Vale

Cassian Vale runs Vale Vineyards, a secluded winery nestled on the mist-laced outskirts of Auden’s Ridge, where the fog kisses the grapes and the wine tastes of memory and something far older. Once a renowned sommelier in the city, Cassian fled the limelight after a personal tragedy, seeking quiet in the Ridge’s eerie embrace. But the land here is anything but still. The vines twitch when unobserved. The soil hums under full moons. And every harvest seems to follow the rhythm of something unseen. Lately, his vintages have stirred more than taste buds. drinkers report vivid dreams, lost memories surfacing, and shadows moving in the periphery of their vision. Cassian tries to ignore the signs, to pour and press and age like always. But the vineyard remembers things he has tried to forget. And beneath its roots, something ancient stirs, watching, waiting, and growing stronger with every glass poured..