Dawnfall Seven

Book 1 of the Dawnfall Seven series At 7:00 p.m., seven strangers received the same violet notification on their Mana-Glass: URGENT CONTRACT: 02:17 AM. LOCATION: Aetheris Prime — beneath East Virel University, Sub-Level 7. Hazard pay negotiable. Bring your own insurance. — L. They came anyway. A loud-mouthed gnome barbarian who fights with a warhammer called Footnote and calls his rage “academic frustration.” A tiefling paladin who radiates holy light and apologizes right before she smites you. A half-orc diviner who mutters probability statistics while having panic attacks about the future. An ex-noble gunslinger who names her pistols Regret and Apology and keeps score of everything. A cheerful halfling warlock whose patron keeps suggesting they “set it on fire.” A goliath druid who finds beauty in rot and gives people dried beetles as gifts. A goblin cleric who heals you for a modest investment and sends an invoice later. What they found beneath the university wasn’t a simple job. It was a dying world-spirit named Lilthid — the living heart of the continent Peodith — slowly being drained by seven ancient Elemental Titans who believe magic belongs to them alone. Now these dysfunctional misfits are the only thing standing between a modern arcane metropolis and planetary extinction. Ley-lines are fracturing. Smartphones glitch when the magic bleeds. Hospitals switch to mana-generators during blackouts. And every spell cast near a Titan siphon costs a little more of your soul… or your lunch. Blending Terry Pratchett’s razor-sharp situational wit with the glorious train-wreck energy of a D&D party that somehow keeps rolling natural ones, Dawnfall Seven is a darkly humorous, very crude, character-driven epic where the heroes are wrong at least once per chapter, the banter never stops, and the stakes keep climbing even when someone’s trying to expense a resurrection. Because when the world itself is screaming, sometimes the only sane response is to argue about who gets the last healing potion… while the sky catches fire. Welcome to the end of the world. Try not to die on company time.