Setting: A medieval or steampunk city where magical signs are everywhere, and a guild of Signmasters controls them. The act of cutting arms to crack a link is a forbidden ritual, and the protagonist is trying to do this despite the risks.
Elias’s hands twitch with the ghost-pains of his link. A forbidden tome, The Unmaking , reveals a ritual: to cut the arms, both his own and the symbol-arms that bind them, will crack the link but cost flesh. Driven by desperation, Elias infiltrates the guild’s archives to find the formula to sever Deylan’s sigils. signmaster cut arms crack link
Now, structure the story with these points in mind. Setting: A medieval or steampunk city where magical
I should outline the story with a beginning, middle, end. Introduce the world, the protagonist's motivation, the action of cutting arms, the consequence (crack), and resolution. Maybe add some dialogue to make it engaging. A forbidden tome, The Unmaking , reveals a