crystal_mage

Eight years of deep-sea repair work have made Marcus one of the most skilled technicians in the Arctic sector, but he took the job to escape gambling debts and a failed marriage on the surface. The isolation and danger of deep-sea work suit his preference for solitude, and he's developed an almost supernatural ability to diagnose equipment failures by sound and vibration alone.

An entity that has existed for millions of years, serving as a communication conduit between the dormant old gods and the surface world. It has been dormant beneath the Arctic seafloor until humanity's industrial expansion finally reached the depth needed to trigger its awakening.

A marine biologist working for the deep-sea mining consortium who has been secretly documenting the anomalous discoveries for years. She's been monitoring Marcus's maintenance reports and suspects that the equipment failures are not random, but she can't prove her theories without risking her career and access to the data.