Thael is not falling. It has already fallen — most people just haven't noticed yet.
To kill the beast he must become the beast.
Tarahn Bael is the last of the Varrenach — an ancient order of hunter-picts whose entire civilisation was destroyed in a single night of betrayal. Reborn through a forbidden ritual, he walks the broken continent of Thael carrying a curse that hungers for the very monsters he is sworn to destroy.
Each beast he slays grants him new power. Each power costs him a piece of his humanity. The marks spread across his skin like roots finding new soil. The memories of who he was grow thinner with every kill.
He seeks revenge for his people. Will he still recognize his purpose when the time finally comes to enact retribution.
Every hunt costs him a piece of himself. Every hunt brings him closer to the truth of his people's destruction.
Fiend Hunter is a dark fantasy series that follows one man moving through a world that has already fallen, trying to prevent worse things from seeping through the cracks.
The road from the coast took nine days. I counted them in silences.
Not the silence of open country, which is wind and distance and the patience of things that grow without being asked to. This was the silence of a man learning that the world has a sound underneath the sound, and the underneath will not stop.
I am carrying ghosts that sing.
The braid is grey now. I checked it this morning in the light. Turned it over on my wrist and looked for colour and found none. When I braided Yenna's hair into it the night we burned her, the strands were copper and dark gold and one streak of iron near the temple where she was going early. Now it is the colour of old rope.
I am keeping things. The belt will not bring Brennan back. The auroch will not make Yenna hum in the evening. I am carrying dead weight across a dead country and every night I unwrap it and check it and wrap it again and I do not know if this is grief or sickness or both.
Thulvaer. The sickness of holding.
This isn't a story of saving the world. It's a story of one man moving through a world that has already fallen, trying to prevent worse things from seeping through the cracks. Each novel takes Tarahn to a new settlement, a new beast, a new reckoning with what he is becoming.
Every beast he kills grants new power. Every power costs him a piece of his humanity. How long until he becomes the fiend he hunts?
Each novel forces a choice: power or humanity. Victory or identity. How much of yourself can you sacrifice before there's nothing left to save?
Dark bestial adversaries that mirror all types of twisted folklore and nightmarish familiarity.
Dark, grounded fantasy with weight and consequence. A world beyond darkness, that reflects its darkness towards those who pry.
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