“You can call me Scratch”
What is Scratch about?
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Kieran’s Journey
Kieran Moorfell begins as a quiet, loving husband preparing for the birth of his first child. But when his wife is brutally murdered and their unborn daughter stolen by mercenaries, his grief turns to fury. Refusing to let death be the end, he makes a desperate pact with a necromancer named Scratch, who casts Kieran’s soul into a stronger, immortal body through a forbidden ritual known as soul-casting. Reborn and bound to dark magic, Kieran sets out across a plague-ridden world to hunt the witch cult that took everything from him. Along the way, he faces the dead, the damned, and the ghost of the man he used to be. His journey is one of vengeance, corruption, and ultimately, the fight to reclaim not just his daughter, but the last shred of his humanity.
The Dark Power
Scratch is Voidborn, one of the few who dared to pursue necromancy in a world where it is absolutely forbidden. To master death, he gave up everything that made him human, his mortality, his legacy, and his ability to create life. He is a eunuch in body and spirit, cut off from the natural order and cast out by the world. Soul-casting, the dark ritual that binds a soul to a new vessel, is both his power and his prison. Cursed to live forever in the shadows between life and death, Scratch survives by offering others what he was denied, a second chance. When Kieran comes to him in grief, Scratch sees more than a broken man. He sees a weapon. A servant. A means to reclaim what was taken from him. His journey is not just about manipulating Kieran or capturing the witch-born child. It is about reshaping the balance between life and death and forcing the world that cast him out to kneel before what he has become.
A cursed world where to raise the dead is to forfeit your soul.
The World Of Scratch
Moorfell Cabin
The Moorfell Cabin is a secluded woodland home nestled deep in the fog-choked forest, quiet and weathered by time. Its stone hearth and candlelit rooms once held warmth and family, now marked by blood, grief, and the memory of a life stolen.
Sold Soul Cemetery
The Sold Soul Cemetery is a forgotten graveyard hidden deep in the forest, where every headstone reads "UNKNOWN" and candles burn endlessly over unclaimed dead. The air is thick with fog and whispers, each grave holding a soul that was traded, not lost.
Abolis Witches Camp
The Abolis witches camp is a nomadic enclave deep in the wilds, built from old wagons, patchwork tents, and charms strung between trees. It feels ancient and guarded, a place where whispers carry power and every fire burns with purpose.
Characters
The Souls That Shape the Story
SCRATCH
Scratch is a pale, ageless necromancer who gave up his mortality and ability to create life in order to master death. Cursed to walk the world alone, he offers resurrection through soulcasting, a forbidden magic that always comes with a price.
“Death has a funny way of correcting failure.”
KIERAN MOORFELL
Kieran Moorfell is a grieving father who sacrifices his soul to bring back what was taken from him. Bound to dark magic and driven by vengeance, he becomes a relentless force in search of his stolen child.
“You see pretty well for a blind man.”
DJINN
Djinn is a wandering merchant cursed to roam forever, trading magical relics with no memory of who he truly is. Beneath his charm and humor lies a hollow man drawn to war, ruin, and the strange pull of fate.
“What does it say of the man who has everything and loses himself?”
LUCIAN NYTHEIS
Lucian is a blind seer and spiritual leader of the Abolis witch order, revered and feared for his unwavering belief in the sacredness of death. Once a protector, now a zealot, he will do whatever it takes to prevent prophecy from unfolding, even if it means killing those he once called family.
“You must think we are of simple minds. There is but one unforgivable sin…”
MYA MOORFELL
Mya is a former witch who left the order long before meeting Kieran, hiding that part of her life to protect the peaceful future they built together. When her past returns and their unborn child is stolen, the secret she kept becomes the key to a war neither of them saw coming.
“Do not worry of the past. Dream of tomorrow for it is not yet decided.”
CREATURES
The world of Scratch is haunted by the remnants of forbidden magic. Soul-bound undead, spectral wraiths, and mercenaries reanimated by death magic serve as violent echoes of Kieran’s own corruption and the dark power that brought him back.
Thematic Elements
The Ideas Beneath The Surface
At its core, Scratch is about a man shattered by loss and the brutal path he chooses to reclaim what was taken. Grief is the ignition, but vengeance is the engine, and both consume Kieran as he journeys further from the man he once was.
Grief and Vengeance
The Price of Power
Whether it's Kieran's soul-casting, Scratch's immortality, or Lucian’s prophetic control, every character who wields power in this world pays for it. The film constantly asks what power is worth and who really owns it once it’s taken.
Corruption of the Soul
This theme haunts every character in the film. Soul death is not just punishment, it's an existential erasure, and the more Kieran taps into forbidden magic, the more he risks becoming something monstrous and hollow.
Faith versus Control
Lucian’s belief in prophecy and death's sanctity contrasts sharply with Scratch’s rejection of fate and Kieran’s desperate defiance of natural law. Faith, free will, and fanaticism clash violently, and no belief comes out unbloodied.
Father and Legacy
Kieran's entire journey is driven by the love of a father for his child. This isn't just about rescue, it’s about what kind of world his daughter will be raised in, and whether the man who saves her is someone worth being remembered.
What Makes Us Human
Through the Voidborn, the undead, and Kieran’s unnatural resurrection, the story keeps questioning what defines humanity. Is it mortality? Emotion? The ability to create life? And if you give all of that up, can you ever get it back?
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