Risen Fantasy Action Adventure Supernatural Psychological
Note: Slight edits to early chapters (and removal of one chapter - previously chapter 2) have been made 2/2/21
The city, my city, had once been alive in a way that was hard to describe. Thriving, active, hopeful. Vibrant.
But life, as I had come to learn, sometimes possesses only the most tenuous of grasps. Finally, in the end, it became my city - mine alone.
I was, after all, the only one left.
Worse, it was entirely my fault.
There was red in my ledger that could never be wiped clean.
Not while I still lived, anyway.
This story follows Eran, a man who became the opposite of everything he had ever wanted to be; in a world where superpowers began to appear in a rare few, his lack of control over his own power relegated him to the role of a terrible villain - the Reaper, named so for the countless lives that he absorbed and made his own, each only furthering his deadly lack of control. Gone mad with guilt and isolation, he strove for a single heroic act - his own demise.
Death was less permanent than he hoped. Centuries later, he woke to a changed world and in a body not his own. Unfortunately, his power came with him. Yet this time, things would be different. This time, he had a chance to bring it under control.
He could never truly make up for the things he had done; he could never achieve redemption.
That wouldn't stop him from trying to be a hero.
Cover courtesy of the amazing Vitaly S Alexius, author of Romantically Apocalyptic. Go check him out!
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Chapter Selections
1. Glossary and Worldbuilding: Rothel
2. Prologue: A Hero At Last
3. Chapter 1: A Second Chance (Edited 2/2/21)
4. Chapter 2: I Never Killed You; I Can Help You (Edited 2/2/21)
5. Chapter 3: Arise - The First
6. Chapter 4: Shifting Wounds
7. Chapter 5: Beautiful Humanity
8. Chapter 6: Eyes of the Dead
9. Chapter 7: Sticks and Stones and Glass Houses
10. Chapter 8: Breaking The Silence
11. Chapter 9: Pit Fighter
12. Chapter 10: Stories Of The Past
13. Chapter 11: A Better Choice
14. Chapter 12: The Dark
15. Chapter 13: Loss and Memory
16. Chapter 14: Destroyer of Men; Killer of Spiders
17. Chapter 15: The Hunt
18. Chapter 16: Katrina’s Killers
19. Chapter 17: Thief In The Night
20. Chapter 18: What You Are
21. Chapter 19: Hero For Hire
22. Chapter 20: The Scent of Fear
23. Chapter 21: Dangerous Curiosity
24. Chapter 22: Every Hero Needs A Villain
25. Chapter 23: Every Villain Needs A Hero
26. Chapter 24: A Warning Drop
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