Three thousand years ago the world fell into darkness, when the great mouth of the Rot ravaged the land. Across the glorious library city of Aradabar its dark tongues hammered down, leveling the glass towers of learning and entombing the bookyards in a thick blanket of lava. Those few who survived settled at the edge of the cooling lava field, to slowly dig into the secrets of what was lost.

But not everything was lost.

The Queen of Aradabar leaped across the millennia, along with her son; an infant with a prophecy carved into his skin, promising the rise of a legendary hero powerful enough to slay the Rot for good.

Now that child is a young man, beginning to question the meaning of his many scars…

Now that settlement is a bustling industrial city, teeming with a thousand strange castes and ruled by a jealous King who seeks a prophecy written in skin…

Now a dark beast is watching, an Unforgiven, seeking to fulfill a promise made long ago…

And now the Rot has returned, its great black mouth gaping in the sky once more, bringing chaos and fear to a world where no heroes endure…

The first book in The Ignifer Cycle, a new epic fantasy saga.