The Crucible Saint: Small Mercies

Mark Jeffries spent twenty-six years breaking. Osteogenesis Imperfecta saw to that, a lifetime of fractures, hospital stays, and smiling through pain so his family wouldn't worry. When a pulmonary embolism takes him out two days after his latest broken hip, he figures that's the end of it.Instead, a goddess in bunny slippers offers him a deal: a new life in a dying world called Astranova. No chosen one prophecy, no grand destiny. Just a simple request...be kind.Now he's Aelric Vasren, the frail youngest son of a minor noble house nobody cares about, armed with a class that would be funny if it weren't so cruel. The Crucible Saint grows stronger from the suffering of those around him. The sicker, more frightened, and more desperate the people near him are, the more powerful he becomes.The catch? Every person he heals, every fear he soothes, every life he saves drains the very power that let him do it.A story about a man who knows pain intimately, armed with a shitty superpower, trying to make a hard world a little softer one small mercy at a time.