Tattoo of Taboo
What happens when you lose everything even the memories of the ones you loved most?
In a world where power is carved into skin and soul, every mark demands a price.
Born to a painter, Kain Ardent never imagined that the very protectors of his land, the Council of Brands, would be the ones to destroy it.
When they declare his mother a bearer of a forbidden taboo, she is condemned and burned alive before the eyes of her helpless son. As the holy flames consume his home, Kain is thrown into the darkness of a fracturing mind.
When he awakens, his village is nothing but ash. The people he once knew are gone, and fragments of his memory have been stolen, hollow, unreachable, and cold. But on his forearm, glowing with a pulse like a chaotic heartbeat, is a tattoo he never chose: the Obsidian-class Ash Mark, bound to an equally mysterious System.
The world wastes no time naming him what it fears most: a heretic. A bearer of a forbidden mark.
Hunted and rejected by the cosmic laws that govern power, suffocating under trauma, Kain clings to the only constant left to him, his curse mark They call it a taboo. But to him, it is a promise. A weapon. A path to rise.
He will make the Council pay with the exact same flames they unleashed upon his mother. He will make the entire world learn to fear his pain.
But power always demands a toll, and the living tattoo etched into his flesh hungers for far more than mere vengeance. As the countdown on his soul begins, Kain faces a final, volatile choice:
“Either the world burns… or I burn with it.”
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Tags{:-} #Action #Slowpaced #Revenge #Trauma #Cursedpower
#Tattoomagicsystem #Weaktostrong #Anti-Hero #monsters.
LOOKING FOR A FRESH CHANGE IN POWER SYSTEMS? WELCOME TO A WORLD WHERE DRAWING POWER ALWAYS DEMANDS SOMETHING BACK, WHERE EVERY GIFT COMES WITH A BRUTAL CURSE.
GIVE TATTOO OF TABOO A TRY, AND GET READY TO LOSE YOURSELF IN A DEEP, PROGRESSIVE WORLD-BUILDING EPIC. JOIN ME IN MY OBSESSIVE ADDICTION MAKING THIS BOOK, AND TRUST ME, YOUR NEXT OBSESSION STARTS HERE.
NB; It's a slow paced novel, but trust me, THE WAIT IS WORTH IT!!
TheVernity · Fantasy
I was kinda invested until you used the Lord's name in vain in the first chapter. Jesus Christ is real, he is God in the flesh and he died by crucifixion for the sins of the whole world, you included. He rose from the dead three days after his death and now sits on the right hand of God the Father as our mediator.