The Anatomy of Gods
Orin is ten years old, Veyari-born, and wakes up one night with the complete memories of a previous life.
He also wakes up with a stepfather who has already sold him and his two-year-old sister to a cult. The transaction is final. The pickup is tonight.
He has a few hours, a shack full of rotting wood, and an ability he cannot fully explain, a second layer of vision that shows him what things actually are beneath the surface. Weak points. Intentions. The shape of a threat before it moves. He is not a fighter. He is an engineer in a child's body, and he treats every problem the same way: find the structure, find the flaw, apply pressure at the right point.
What follows is a story about what it costs to survive a world that is far older and far stranger than anything his past life prepared him for. The continent of Euletra runs on a system of biological transformation. Sorcerers who remake their own bodies from the inside, building organs that were never meant to exist in human anatomy, each one permanent and each one carrying a price. The further you climb, the less of your original self remains.
Orin wants to understand all of it. Every faction, every secret, every layer of a city that has been lying to itself for a century. That desire is the source of his power. It is also the thing most likely to destroy him.
*The Anatomy of Gods* is a dark cultivation fantasy with a hard-science lens, a protagonist who reads danger the way an engineer reads a schematic, and a world built to be worth understanding.
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