Sin Eater: Book One of the Ascendant Engine Archives

The end was just another beginning for humanity. When the Reality Alteration Engine arrived to harvest the last of its untapped sentient resources, it also flipped the table on all the Laws by which mankind had measured the scope of its existence. The result was chaos, and the death of more than 80% of the human race within a matter of weeks. But those who survived the culling were stronger than any that had come before them, and newly imbued with the potential to grow beyond even their wildest dreams.For Bardh Aleksandër Zenevisi, the great calamity was the final impetus he needed to return to the childhood home that he'd fled long ago, in search of the girl he'd left behind. That fateful impulse swiftly led him down the path to tragedy. But in his darkest hour, the arrival of the Engine offered a glimmer of hope. One last chance to reverse his greatest failure and restore what had been so viciously ripped away. Trapped at the moment of global conversion within the deepest reaches of the tribulation zone known as the Endless Graveyard, the reborn Sin Eater must find a way to survive against impossible odds, if only long enough to fulfill his last and most important mission.But little does he know, just how deep this rabbit hole goes.---Welcome to the Engine!A place of endless danger and intrigue, brimming with monsters both mythical and mundane. A reality where the stakes can be as small as a single, solitary lost soul looking for a way to rejoin her soulmate among the living, or as large as an intra-galactic war between system-spanning, reality-bending vampiric super-entities.Love and death, trust and betrayal, the clash of powerful civilizations and the fall of great empires, as well as the final state of every soul within them, are balanced herein upon the edge of a knife. The pieces will fall, but where they lay will be up to those who dare to change the Weave and alter the Pattern. So spin the Wheel, and come along for the ride!