Epic Fantasy · For readers of Sanderson, John Gwynne & Brian McClellan · 3 of 6 Published
When a god dies, it is reborn as an ordinary child — with no power, no memory, and no idea what it is. Then the Hunt begins.
Bounty hunters in the Guild of Keepers spread throughout the world, hunting down the reborn god. Clad in armor and wielding blades forged from the flesh of the gods they've already taken, they find and cull each god before it can grow strong enough to threaten Mankind — or so they claim. For they also harvest the gods' flesh, using it to craft magical artifacts of extraordinary power. What they don't keep for themselves, they sell back to the kingdoms of Man, enriching themselves in the process.
Damian is seventeen, with a withered arm he's never been able to use. But his father trained him to fight and to forge anyway, refusing to see his son as a cripple. Damian has no idea why... until the Keepers invade his hometown, murdering his father and coming for him. Then the god inside Damian begins to wake.
Barely escaping with his life, Damian runs. But once a god's power awakens, it gives off an aura that blazes like a beacon to every Keeper in the world. They're closing in fast, and unless Damian can find out which god he is, and learn to wield his power before they reach him, they'll cull him like all the others. His life, and everything his father died to protect, will have been for nothing.
Born with a paralyzed arm, raised by a blacksmith father, and accompanied everywhere by his crow Ray. Damian is smart, determined, and deeply human — even as he discovers that he's anything but ordinary.
Short for Raven (a name born from a childhood misidentification that stuck), Ray is Damian's constant companion and one of the series' most beloved presences. Never underestimate a crow.
Deadly, relentless, and organized — the Keepers exist to hunt the reborn gods, cull them before they can rise to power, and harvest their flesh into artifacts of terrible worth. They are not monsters. They are something far worse: true believers.
A figure of legend and terror. Malek's very name signals that the world is about to change — and not for the better. A force that reshapes the series from Book 2 onward.
The Blade of Hylon isn't borrowing from Greek or Norse myth — it builds its own divine cosmology from scratch. The rules of godhood, death, and rebirth feel genuinely new.
Damian starts the series with a disability, a dead father, and no allies. Watching him grow into someone who can fight back — and how he does it — is immensely satisfying.
Readers consistently report finishing book one in a single sitting. The plot never stalls — every chapter moves the story forward and raises the stakes.
Three books are live, with two more in active development. Get in now and experience the story as it expands into something truly epic.
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