A cursed bastard. A crumbling world. A tale forged in blood, betrayal, and ash.
He was born in shit, raised in fire, and destined to die unloved.
Tristan has no name worth remembering, no home but the road, and no friends but the ghosts he drinks to forget. But when a dying knight begs him to deliver a blade to a cursed city, Tristan finds himself entangled in a war he doesn’t understand—and carrying a weapon he was never meant to wield.
Betrayed by those he trusted, hunted by what was once holy, and cursed to be the blade instead of the hand that holds it, Tristan must decide what kind of bastard he really weapon…or the war.