Elias Reed was a data analyst. He organized spreadsheets, clocked out at five, and went home to an apartment that smelled like takeout and loneliness. He had never killed anyone. He had never been brave. He had never been special.
Then the cultists dragged him into a warehouse, forced a brass ring onto his finger, and cut his throat.
He wakes in the body of Alucent Luci, a Scribe-Weaver in a Steampunk-Victorian world where magic is a precise, unforgiving code etched into the fabric of reality. Senele is a world dying from beauty, a Turquoise Moon radiates a strange light that warps physics, collapses economies, and invites parasitic horrors that feed on memory.
To survive, Alucent must master the Threadweave Hierarchy, a system where advancement requires psychological growth, not experience points. He must confront his grief, his guilt, and the terrifying truth that his analytical mind, the only weapon he brought from Earth, might be the key to understanding the corruption consuming this world.
But in a world where magic is governed by emotional clarity, his soul is a corrupted file. Haunted by the ghosts of his old life and the family he lost, he must become a Master Scribe, or lose himself entirely.