IRON & FROSTBURN
IRON & FROSTBURN
IN A CITY WITHOUT A SUN, SILENCE IS THE ONLY SIN.
Under the fractured sky of Sideris, where the "Tear" bleeds freezing blue light onto the cobblestones and acid rain dissolves the weak, the Church of the Pale Eye rules through fear and iron. They promise salvation, but they trade in agony.
VALERIUS is their greatest weapon. Known as the Rune Eater, he is a mountain of a man encased in cursed Void Armor, a living prison that feeds on magic and burns his flesh with unceasing fire. He is the Church’s executioner, a man who has forgotten peace, existing only to silence the enemies of High Priest Lysander. He prays for death, but his armor will not let him die.
ELARA is a mistake. Marked with the brand of the void, Ø, she is a flaw in the Church’s quest for the perfect human. A "Glitch" born in the Alchemy Halls, she possesses violet eyes that see the truth and a touch that does the impossible: it does not feed the magic; it kills it.
When Valerius is sent to the deepest dungeon to erase this mistake, he finds not a monster, but a miracle. For the first time in a decade, when Elara touches his burning armor, the fire dies. The screaming runes turn to ice. The pain stops.
Now, the executioner has become the protector.
United by a desperate need, his for silence, hers for survival, they must flee into the chaotic, monster-infested streets of Sideris. But the Church will not let its favorite weapon and its most dangerous secret escape so easily.
In a world made of rust, blood, and lies, Valerius and Elara will discover that the only way to break their chains is to burn the world down or freeze it into eternal silence.
Iron bleeds. Frost burns. And the Gods are made of paper.
