Crimson Cycle

Roric Vane was born into the dust of the Lower Districts, a mere Tender of the archaic Conduits that kept Veridian Spire's dying Aetherium faintly humming. Denied the sacred Essence Rites of the powerful, his fate was to slowly decay alongside the city's forgotten mechanisms. When a desperate uprising tears through the Spire's underbelly, Roric finds himself, by cruel chance, caught in the crossfire. Murdered, his body discarded amongst the rubble, he awakens to a terrifying truth: he remembers the chill of the blade, the plunge into nothingness. And with it, a peculiar strength, pulsing through newly invigorated veins. Banished from the fading light of the Districts above, Roric is cast into the labyrinthine depths of the Under-City – a sunless realm of forgotten cults and monstrous scavengers. Here, life is cheap, and survival demands constant sacrifice. But for Roric, each brutal demise isn't an end, but a gruesome baptism, shedding the constraints of mortality and forging him anew. In a world where every shadow holds a killer, Roric Vane will discover that death is merely the first, most potent lesson.