Content
Warning

Sexual violence

• An attempted rape depicted on the page, including strangulation, forcible restraint, non-consensual touching, and clothing torn. The attack is interrupted. on page
• Rape of captured civilians as organized raiding practice — recorded administratively, allocated as reward, discussed casually by officers. The acts occur off the page; the system around them does not. referenced · aftermath
• A rape witnessed at a distance, with audible distress. on page · brief
• Sexual slavery and trafficking of women, including the "preparation" of captives. referenced
• Crude sexual language and sexual threats throughout.

Slavery and captivity

• Capture, chaining, forced marches, and the sale of human beings.
• Prisoners stripped, appraised, and inventoried as livestock.
• Dehumanizing language directed at captives.

Graphic violence

• The massacre of a civilian settlement shown at close range: beheading, burning, homes destroyed, corpses looted. on page
• Mutilation of the dead — heads severed and piled, eyes removed and kept as trophies.
• An execution by keelhauling: a man dragged beneath the hull, drowning audible, remains recovered dismembered. Onlookers gamble on how much of him will come back. on page
• A man killed by being thrown miles into the air.
• Combat injury throughout — goring, blood, blunt trauma, wounds treated without anesthetic.

Body horror

• Fungal implants set through the skull, producing dead-eyed thralls.
• A human body deformed by fungal infection into something vast, tailed, and weeping spores, kept alive by constant attendants.
• A death by spore exposure shown in full: convulsions, arching, audible bone breakage, and a stalk erupting from the victim's skull. on page
• Forced surgery performed on the unconscious and unconsenting.

Torture and punishment

• Flogging and lashing as routine discipline, including of prisoners.
• Beatings and whippings during forced labor.
• Human experimentation.

Children

• Children are present in settlements that are destroyed. Their fate is implied, never depicted.
• A young child's violent death is described in a character's backstory.

Animals

• Hunting, killing, and butchering of animals, shown in detail.
• Seals clubbed and rendered for fat.
• Animals surgically converted into instruments.

Psychological content

• Trauma responses: dissociation, intrusive images, hallucinated corpses, flashbacks.
• Survivor guilt and self-blame.
• Compulsive violence written as addiction and self-medication.
• Complicity, moral injury, and the normalization of atrocity.

Also present

• Pervasive strong profanity, including misogynistic slurs.
• Drunkenness alongside violence.
• Near-drowning, hypothermia, confinement, and claustrophobia.
• Vomiting.
• Grief, funeral pyres, and the deaths of characters you will have come to like.
• An invented religion and priesthood treated satirically.

Two items that spoil plot

• A named, sympathetic senior officer is critically injured, forcibly implanted, and returned to the crew as a thrall — conscious presence gone, her shield fused to the bone of her arm by living tissue. She is not restored.
• A named character the point-of-view protagonist has come to trust is killed off the page during a battle, and the protagonist learns of it afterward.

On page — depicted directly, in scene.
Referenced — discussed, ordered, or recorded, but not depicted.
Aftermath — the reader arrives after the act.