Ignifer's Rise

In the ancient, ash-swept city of Ignifer's Mons, brutal laws of caste enslave all. Discord is crushed by the King's monstrous Adjunc, scorpion-like creations remade from the dead, who stalk the city's cobblestone streets hunting for a secret prophecy written in skin.

Sen, a brilliant young boy marked with a thousand mysterious scars, may be the one they seek. He hides in the city's last abbey, sheltered by misshapen Sisters who lie to keep him alive- but he can't hide forever. In the chaos caused by the arrival of five savage children of wildly different castes, Sen glimpses the bizarre truth: his scars predict a coming apocalypse, and offer an impossible path to salvation.

But there is no time. The Adjunc are closing in, and with them dawns a great black mouth in the sky, hungrily gaping down. Only the legendary hero Saint Ignifer can defeat it, but the Saint died millennia ago, and the castes he once led into battle are divided. All that remains is a lost and confused boy piecing together clues he doesn't understand. Yet in the depths of the city's abandoned slums, destiny waits for Sen- for the Saint must rise again.