A god can be worshiped, feared, and obeyed. But if Sevrin Crowe can uncover the truth of its death, he can forge that death into a weapon. Sevrin is a grayborn traveler with a black coffin on his back and no patience for holy lies. In a world where temples rewrite the dead, erase names, and turn grief into law, he walks from ruined city to forbidden shrine, searching for the causes of death the powerful tried to bury.
Every record matters. Every grave marker matters. Every stolen name can become the edge that brings a god down. But the High Funeral See is watching him. Sacred beasts hunt the roads. Dead men rise under temple command. And the deeper Sevrin cuts into the world's hidden records, the closer he comes to a truth no mortal was meant to carry. Beside him are a furious boy who refuses to let his sister be forgotten and a former record-keeper whose own family's death may be one more lie in the temple's books.
Together, they follow a trail of false causes, forbidden archives, and divine corruption toward something far older than a single god. Dark, brutal, and relentless, this epic fantasy is for readers who love godslayer fantasy, coffin-forge magic, temple conspiracies, found-family tension, and antihero journeys where every victory costs blood. Sevrin does not kneel before gods. He writes their graves.
A god can be worshiped, feared, and obeyed. But if Sevrin Crowe can uncover the truth of its death, he can forge that death into a weapon. Sevrin is a grayborn traveler with a black coffin on his back and no patience for holy lies. In a world where temples rewrite the dead, erase names, and turn grief into law, he walks from ruined city to forbidden shrine, searching for the causes of death the powerful tried to bury.
Every record matters. Every grave marker matters. Every stolen name can become the edge that brings a god down. But the High Funeral See is watching him. Sacred beasts hunt the roads. Dead men rise under temple command. And the deeper Sevrin cuts into the world's hidden records, the closer he comes to a truth no mortal was meant to carry. Beside him are a furious boy who refuses to let his sister be forgotten and a former record-keeper whose own family's death may be one more lie in the temple's books.
Together, they follow a trail of false causes, forbidden archives, and divine corruption toward something far older than a single god. Dark, brutal, and relentless, this epic fantasy is for readers who love godslayer fantasy, coffin-forge magic, temple conspiracies, found-family tension, and antihero journeys where every victory costs blood. Sevrin does not kneel before gods. He writes their graves.