Vestige Eater
The gods died screaming. Their corpses, called Godfalls, became the most
dangerous resource in the world. Fragments of divine power known as
Vestiges grant mortals strength beyond human limits — but broken or
corrupted ones poison and kill on contact.
Maren Ghael is a dishonorably discharged frontier soldier from a bloodline
officially erased from history. When a corrupted Vestige detonates during
a salvage operation and every handler around him drops dead, Maren walks
out carrying its power inside him. He can consume the fragments that
destroy everyone else.
That impossibility draws the attention of three forces: the Sanctum
Orders, who regulate Vestige distribution and see Maren as a living
violation of their law; the Great Houses, noble families who weaponize
divine fragments for political dominance and want Maren controlled or
eliminated; and older, quieter entities who remember what the gods
actually were — and how they really died.
Because the gods did not die of natural causes. They were murdered. And
the force that killed them, known only as the Quorum, is stirring again.
Every corrupted Vestige Maren consumes makes him stronger, but each one
also changes him — his body, his senses, his humanity. The fragments are
rewriting him into something the world has not seen since the gods
themselves walked the earth.
The saga follows Maren's climb from a disgraced foot soldier at the
bottom of the world to a power that rivals divinity itself, through
factional warfare, ancient conspiracies, forbidden knowledge, and a
transformation that threatens to erase the man he was. The central
question that drives all 500 chapters: who killed the gods, why is the
Quorum returning, and can Maren — built from the ruins of murdered
divinities — become something strong enough to stop it without becoming
the very thing he fights?
The answer will cost him everything human he has left. Whether that price
is worth paying is the question the saga exists to answer.