The Vault does not open for the worthy. It opens for the haunted.

Buried beneath the dust-worn edges of old Wangara lies a Vault few remember, and none are meant to enter. But when seventeen-year-old Sewa begins hearing forbidden echoes from the ancestral Kunu, a resonance awakens that calls him by an ancient name no living tongue should know: SayWa.

At the same time, far across the dunes, a shadow-tracker named Makoro begins to sense a pulse in the sand; one that could signal the return of a legacy long thought extinguished.

Rooted in the lost empires of Mali and Great Zimbabwe, The GoldVault Kora is a speculative epic of memory, sound, and sovereignty. Here, wealth is not currency, but coded legacy, inscribed in bone, breath, and buried song. In a world where science and ancestry intertwine, Sewa must descend into the Vault's shifting depths and face a memory lattice designed to break the unready.

But some legacies fight back.