Books by Daymon Ashcord

The God War is over. An empire built on suffering, slavery, and betrayal remains...

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The Salvian Empire runs on suffering—on enslaving God-tainted, broken tribes, and promises made only to be betrayed. Alandra Phoenyka knows this better than most. For a decade, she hunted crazed Sonomancers in the empire’s name, paid in promises that her stolen daughter would be returned. Instead, she’s handed treachery. So she does what she does best: she prepares for war. With a band of cutthroats at her back and fury in her veins, she will carve her child free, even if the blade cuts away what little humanity she has left.

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In the empire’s southern mining camps, Bez Windstrider has endured years of torture, experimentation, and has been pushed to the brink of suicide. He clings to one purpose: to escape and spill the blood of the three who murdered his parents—completing the ritual that will free their souls from damnation. When grief and guilt finally tear him open, the boy the empire tried to break becomes something far more dangerous.

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As their paths draw closer, the buried truths of the God War begin to surface. What begins as two personal vendettas threatens to unravel something far greater than either of them can control.

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Because empires do not fall quietly.

And the gods that shaped them are not as dead as they seem.

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Makerborn is the first book in the Maladies of Empire series, a brutal epic dark fantasy of vengeance, sacrifice, and the cost of love. For readers of dark, character-driven epic fantasy in the vein of Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence, R.F. Kuang, Evan Winter, and Steven Erikson.