When the plague spreads, most flee to the safety of the nearest town — but some stay behind, driven by desperation, to salvage what's left in the homes they were forced to abandon.

Kainon Requiem is a proof-of-concept cinematic for a larger narrative game universe I'm building solo, with locked visual style, character design, and creature lore developed ahead of this challenge.

One note on process: due to a credits shortfall late in the challenge window, my submission is split across two clips instead of one fully continuous take — an original 30-second sequence and a second 22-second continuation resolving the story. Both were generated end-to-end with Seedance 2.5, one of them directly in CapCut Video Studio. I wanted to be upfront about this rather than present it as something it isn't.