The Ashen Throne: An Age of Gods and Clay (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798269663456)

They told us the gods conquered the world to save us. It was the first lie in an age of ash.

The air in the Blightfields has tasted of cinders for a thousand years. Beneath the shadows of the floating Skyforges, mortals like Auren Veyr break their backs in poisoned soil, offering tithes of grain, gold, and their own children to the merciless Ashen Court. The gods are not saviors; they are tyrants, and their rule is absolute.

Auren is just a farmer's son, until a whisper from the earth leads him to an ancient weapon buried in a cursed ruin-the Umbra-Spear, a vessel of bound souls that sings with the fury of the forgotten dead. When he draws it, he is marked. He is the Heir of Clay, the one foretold to bring ruin to the divine thrones.

But the prophecy is a chain, and breaking one only unleashes a greater terror.

Hunted by vengeful gods and pursued by a desperate band of rebels-including a haunted healer named Lyssane and a guilt-ridden warrior, Dorn-Auren must gather the shattered fragments of the one weapon that can kill the unkillable: the legendary Titanblade. His quest will take him from the storm-lashed Shattered Vale to the sunken city of a drowned god, each step paid for in blood and sacrifice.

Yet, with every god he slays, a darker truth unravels. The Ashen Court were not just rulers; they were jailers. And in shattering their throne, Auren has torn open the door to the void, unleashing the Vorathi-ancient, hungry things that see the world not as a home, but as a feast.

In a world where killing a god is only the beginning, can a farmer's son become the storm that saves reality itself? Or has he merely traded one doom for another?

THE ASHEN THRONE is the first book in an epic new dark fantasy series, perfect for fans of John Gwynne, Anthony Ryan, and the grimdark majesty of The Witcher. It's a tale of defiance, sacrifice, and the colossal price of freedom, where the only thing more dangerous than a god on a throne is the silence that follows their fall.