The Forgotten

"In a world where knowledge is a currency paid in blood, your name is the only thing keeping you real." Khalid Ovidius is a Librarian of the Great Archive, an immortal scholar who has spent a century hiding among scrolls to escape a world he finds "not worth the ink." But when a young disciple is Struck from the Ledger, erased from the memories of everyone he loves, the silence of the Archive is broken.   Forced down into the rotting mud of the Lowlands, Khalid must lead a group of abandoned, magical outcasts to find the "Blank Space" left behind by the boy. But every spell Khalid casts triggers The Tax: a parasitic bloom of flowers that erupts from his own skin, slowly turning the Highborn noble into a living garden for a dying god. In the race to uncover the Arcanum’s darkest secret, Khalid must decide what costs more: the truth he seeks, or the humanity he’s starting to remember.