Spore & Marrow: The Beetle's Haven

On Caldara, civilization ended in the Ossifying Rain: metal and high technology became vast calcified ridges, and the wilderness filled with aggressive flesh-mutants. Now a dead world is measured in colossal bones, toxic mists, and the storms that make every journey dangerous. The newest creature struggling to survive is an alien bioecologist reborn as a palm-sized marrow beetle, near the bottom of the food chain. His strange gift offers a way to adapt—but survival is not the only thing he wants. Within the ribs of an ancient beast, he hopes to build Beetle Haven: a refuge where overlooked insects and other outcasts can find shelter, share unusual monster cuisine, and make a small, stubborn life together. Spore & Marrow is an adventure of biological ingenuity, precarious community-building, and warmth in a world that would rather turn everything into something monstrous.