Flaw In The Stone

De: A.D. Sterling

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The world is not ending in fire and shadow, but in a creeping, perfect silence.

A magical Blight seeps across the land, a creeping pestilence that drains the very essence of life, leaving a grey, withered husk in its wake. But this plague is no natural disaster; it is a symptom of a far deeper wrongness, a deliberate act of un-creation. This is a war waged not for territory, but on existence itself.

The architect of this oblivion is Alaric Vane, a philosopher-king who wields a terrifying and absolute power: the ability to erase the fundamental laws of the universe. He is not driven by malice or a lust for power, but by a chilling, unshakable conviction that life—with all its messy, chaotic, beautiful noise—is a flaw in the cosmic design. A flaw that must be corrected. His victory will not be a reign of terror, but an eternity of absolute, crystalline nothingness.

Who can stop a king who can unwrite reality?

Not an army of shining knights, but a broken fellowship of outcasts, a found family of survivors bound by the encroaching doom. They are:

• A fallen angel, his divine song of purpose shattered, now grappling with a newfound and terrifying vulnerability in a world he no longer understands.
• A psychic healer, whose gift is a curse. She is haunted by the ceaseless, screaming voices of a dying world and terrified of the true, devastating potential of her own mind.
• A cynical rogue, a man who has only ever believed in the cold weight of coin and the sharpness of his own blades, now inexplicably caught in a war for the very soul of existence.
• A stoic monk, a man of logic and order, who sees the cold, terrifying reason in the coming apocalypse and must find a faith greater than logic to defy it.

Hunted by an enemy who can weaponize paradox and kill with a single, focused thought, this tattered fellowship must embark on an impossible quest.

To fight a foe who commands oblivion, they must look inward. To survive, they must forge a new kind of power—one born not of strength, but of their shared pain; not of certainty, but of their defiant hope; not of order, but of their messy, unbreakable, human bonds.

They must become the flaw in his perfect design.

For fans of Brandon Sanderson's intricate magic and the epic scope of J.R.R. Tolkien, Flaw In The Stone is the beginning of a gripping dark fantasy saga that challenges the very nature of reality. This is a story for readers who crave more than just swords and sorcery, but a deep dive into a world where the greatest weapons are ideas.

• A Hard Magic System: Explore a world of conceptual warfare, where terrifying psionic powers and the manipulation of reality itself are as deadly as any blade.
• A Found Family of Broken Heroes: Join a character-driven quest with a fellowship of complex outcasts—a fallen angel, a psychic, a rogue, and a monk—who must overcome their inner demons to save the world.
• Intricate World-Building: Journey across a land scarred by a magical blight, from haunted plains and cities built on secrets to sacred monasteries and the perilous heart of a corrupted mountain range.
• A Villain Unlike Any Other: Face an antagonist whose motives are not born of evil, but of a terrifying and absolute logic, making him as compelling as he is horrifying.
• High-Stakes, Mind-Bending Battles: Experience spectacular fantasy battle scenes where heroes confront both monstrous elemental creatures and psychic assaults that target the soul.

If you love stories of fellowship quests, ancient magical artifacts, deep dives into magical theory, and the ultimate battle between chaos and order, you will be captivated by the first book in the Chronicle of the Withered Hand.