The Shadow of Tsé Bitʼa

You are a shepherd in the winter of 1868, standing on the red earth of your ancestral home. After years of poverty and exile, a modest herd of sheep and goats represents your family’s rebirth, your survival, and your future. But as twilight turns the towering basalt spire of Tsé Bitʼa—Shiprock—into a sharp black tooth against the crimson sky, something unholy watches from the crags. An ancient shape-shifter stalks the high canyon trails, hungry to strip away the wealth you sweated and bled to reclaim. The old songs warned never to cross the threshold of the sacred rock after dusk, yet to sit by the campfires below is to watch your livelihood vanish into the dark. With cedar smoke on your breath and sacred pollen in your pouch, you must climb into the cold, wind-scoured height. To save your herd, you must outwit an entity that wears familiar faces and knows your deepest fears—and earn your place on this land once and for all.