Dungeon Born

Cal is a dungeon — a freshly bound soul in a heart-stone, learning to dig, trap, and lure with the help of a chatty dungeon wisp. Above him, shepherd-turned-cultivator Dale owns the mountain Cal lives under, and their fates level up together whether either likes it or not.

Progression: dual-track — dungeon-core engineering on one side, essence cultivation on the other.

Reader fit: you want the dungeon's-eye view with a human counterweight, and creation as the core loop.

Texture: playful, punny, foundational to the dungeon-core genre; completed.