Which god is he?
Damian doesn't know what he's the rebirth of — and neither do you, for a while. The answer decides everything: whether the Keepers are right to be terrified, and whether the world should be too.
The Blade of Hylon · Epic fantasy · An original divine mythology
When a god dies,
it is reborn.
Somewhere in the world — in someone who has no idea what they are. And the moment the reborn is found, the Keepers come: the deadliest warriors alive, who don't kill a god. They chain it, and harvest its power forever.
Seventeen-year-old Damian just watched his father murdered.
He's about to learn what he is. And the Hunt has already begun.
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Epic fantasy · PG-13 · Original mythology
A blacksmith's son with a withered arm and a pet crow.
The most ordinary boy in the village was never ordinary at all.
Damian grew up marked — born with a paralyzed arm, the easy joke of everyone who met him, raised by a gruff blacksmith father with only a crow named Ray for a true friend.
Then his father is murdered. And in the wreckage of the only life he's ever known, Damian discovers the truth: the thing that made him different was never a weakness. It was a sign — of what he is, and of what is now coming for him.
The Hunt begins the moment you find out what you are. And Damian just found out.
A divine cosmology built from scratch — not Greek, not Norse, wholly new
Kill a god, and you don't end it.
In the world of Hylon, the gods are not distant and untouchable. They live, they die — and when they die, they come back. Their essence is reborn in a mortal child, somewhere, someone, with no memory of the power they carry. Most live an entire life and never know. A rare few awaken. And when they do, everything changes.
Tap a card. Then sit with the real question: if the thing that made you an outcast turned out to be the mark of a god — would you awaken it, knowing what would come?
The people hunting Damian think they're the heroes
The Keepers don't see a monster when they chain a god.
They see salvation.
The most frightening enemy isn't the cruelest one. It's the one that's certain. The Keepers are the deadliest warriors alive — and true believers. To them, a free god is the end of everything, and Damian is a fuse that's already lit. You cannot reason a Keeper out of the Hunt. That's what makes them relentless.
And then there is Malek. From the second book on, a single name empties battlefields. The Godslayer. Because not everything hunting Damian wants to chain him — some of it simply wants every god in the world dead, and doesn't much care who's in the way.
Between the ones who'd cage him and the one who'd end him, Damian has to become strong enough to matter — without becoming the thing they all fear.
On the Keepers
"They are not monsters. They are something far worse — true believers."
Four questions you will not be able to put down
The itch.
A great epic doesn't just sweep you along — it plants questions you'll turn over between chapters. Here are the ones this series opens early and refuses to close.
Why chain a god instead of killing one?
The Keepers could end a reborn god in the cradle. They don't. They cage the divine and harvest it. Harvest it for what — and for whom? The answer is the rot at the center of this world.
What is Malek?
A name whispered like a curse. When the Godslayer takes the field, even gods run. Whose side is he on — or is the terrifying truth that he's only ever on his own?
What did his father know?
A blacksmith raised a god's rebirth for seventeen years and never said a word — then died for it. How much did he know? Who told him? And what was he trying to protect Damian from by keeping quiet?
At least one of these is already itching. That feeling doesn't go away until you've read the book.
Epic fantasy that earns every victory.
If any of this sounds like your taste, the Blade of Hylon was built for it:
- If John Gwynne taught you to love an epic with real battle, real stakes, and a hero you'd bleed for — this hits the same nerve.
- If Brandon Sanderson hooked you with a cosmology that feels genuinely new — rules of godhood, death and rebirth you haven't seen before — you're in the right place.
- If you cheer for the underdog — the outcast who starts with nothing and a body the world wrote off — Damian's rise is exactly the kind you finish in one sitting.
◈Wholly original mythologyGodhood, death & rebirth, built from scratch.
◈An underdog with heartA hero with a disability who earns every win.
◈Relentless pacingReaders finish Book One in a single sitting.
◈A living, growing seriesThree books live, two more on the way — get in now.
Reading order · three books live, two on the way
The series so far.
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ISword of Sacrifice -
IIMalek the Godslayer -
IIICrown of Hylon -
IVEmbers of Abbadon
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VMaster of Keepers
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VIDawn of Azurel
The Hunt is waiting.
Start with Sword of Sacrifice — free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Give it one chapter. Readers tend to finish it the same night; consider yourself warned.
Early readers rate it 4.7 / 5 on Amazon
“I have read a lot of fantasy, but this one truly stands out as among the best.”— SG, Amazon
“I loved this book. Exciting from beginning to end with characters easy to love and root for.”— Debbie Gabor, Amazon
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