No God Is Absolute

In the Iron Domain of Vorath, magic is a crime against the divine.The Wardens of Vorrath are a sacred order, charged with hunting down mages and erasing them from the world in the name of holy law. Apostates are imprisoned from childhood, stripped of identity, and broken into tools. Those who resist are burned, butchered, or erased entirely. This is the order that keeps Alyria safe. This is what the faithful believe.Garren Vorath was raised to enforce it.On his first sanctioned purge, Garren helps cleanse a village accused of harbouring mages. The operation is swift, efficient, and absolute. When the smoke clears, nothing is left behind but ash and silence. He believes the mission complete until, during a final sweep of the ruins, he finds a surviving mage clutching a strange relic.The object detonates.When Garren awakens, magic has fused itself into his body, flooding him with raw mana and marking him as an abomination under the laws he once upheld. Branded an apostate, he is dragged back to the Wardens' fortress, chained, interrogated, and tortured alongside the very prisoners he was trained to destroy.But the truth he uncovers is worse than heresy.The Wardens do not merely exterminate mages. They harvest them.Their holy authority, their miracles, their power. All of it fuelled by stolen mage essence. The theocracy of Vorath is built on a lie, and Garren has become living proof of it.With the help of a fellow mage prisoner, Garren escapes into the wider world of Alyria. Hunted by the order that raised him, feared by the people he once protected, and burdened by power he does not understand, he must choose what kind of monster he will become.Prey, or hunter.No God Is Absolute is a dark fantasy novel set in a mage-hunting theocracy where faith is enforced at swordpoint, truth is buried in ash, and survival means defying gods, kingdoms, and the order that made you.