The Hunger Accord Chronicles

In a world choked by perpetual twilight, where skyscrapers stand as skeletal monuments to a forgotten abundance, humanity survives as enslaved chefs, their culinary artistry twisted into a macabre performance for immortal overlords known as the Feastlords. Flavor, once a source of joy, is now a weapon, each dish a potential death sentence.  This is the world Yeshan inherits.
Driven by the memory of her grandmother's sacrifice and guided by a sentient obsidian knife, a legacy of defiance, Yeshan embarks on a desperate quest for the mythical Recipe of Accord — a dish rumored to shatter the Feastlords’ immortality. Her journey demands three impossible ingredients: phoenix peppercorns, born of fire and rebellion; frostroot, glowing with the frozen memory of a lost world; and the tears of the last basilisk, a creature of immense sorrow, hunted to the brink of extinction.
Yeshan's path leads her through the whispering markets of Veridia, a clandestine city of forbidden spices and dangerous secrets, where she forges an uneasy alliance with Nayla Rhyland, a cynical spice merchant with a past as dark as the ingredients she trades.  She then braves the poisoned River Styx, its waters teeming with grotesque remnants of the Feastlords’ gluttony, guided by Elara Calloway, a grizzled survivor whose weathered face maps a lifetime of hardship. Finally, Yeshan reaches the icy ruins of the old Arctic, a desolate wasteland where she encounters Faelan Blackwood, a solitary scavenger haunted by echoes of the past.
As Yeshan gathers the impossible ingredients, her destiny intertwines with Keirion Thorne, a Feastlord’s son burdened by the monstrous legacy of his bloodline.  Haunted by his own kind's insatiable hunger, Keirion seeks to dismantle the system from within, his motives a volatile cocktail of guilt, ambition, and a yearning for justice.  Their alliance, a precarious dance of trust and suspicion, will determine the fate of their world.
The obsidian knife whispers not only of culinary secrets but also of the sacrifices required, the moral compromises that threaten to consume them all. Each ingredient carries its own weight: the phoenix peppercorns burn with the fire of revolution, the frostroot pulses with the frozen memory of a world lost, and the basilisk’s tears, heavy with ancient sorrow, hold the key to breaking the cycle of consumption. But obtaining them will demand a heartbreaking sacrifice from Yeshan, testing the very limits of her compassion and resolve.
In a final, desperate gamble, Yeshan infiltrates the opulent feasting halls of the Feastlords, the air thick with the cloying sweetness of decay.  The obsidian knife, humming with accumulated magic, guides her hand as she prepares the Recipe of Accord, a symphony of flavors and arcane energy, while Keirion plays a dangerous double game, his actions a delicate balance of deception and genuine rebellion.  The Feast of Eternal Night becomes the stage for their final act of defiance, a battle for freedom that will determine whether their world will continue to drown in perpetual twilight or finally embrace the dawn.