Blackflame

by Will Wight

To grow strong enough to matter, Lindon adopts the Path of Black Flame — a destructive art that consumes its practitioners. Training under a sacred turtle with anger issues and a mysterious Arelius heir, he enters the Blackflame Empire's most dangerous trials.

9 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Eithan Arelius — An Underlord with perfect hair, omniscient perception, and a training program that looks like chaos but produces results no one can explain — he's inv
• Fisher Gesha — A master soulsmith and Lindon's former teacher — still acid-tongued, still invested in his progress, still calling him 'boy' despite his advancing ran
• Jai Chen — Jai Long's younger sister — still fighting the spiritual contamination that's been killing her, still the reason her brother won't stop.
• Jai Long — The Jai clan exile — still protecting his sister, still fighting with the desperate efficiency of a man who has nothing left to lose except her.
• Naru Huan — The Emperor of the Blackflame Empire — a pragmatic wind-path Overlord who rules through intelligence and strategy in a world where Monarchs treat empi
• Orthos — An ancient Blackflame sacred turtle — centuries old, half-mad from cycling destruction madra, and newly bonded to Lindon in a partnership that's pulli
• Wei Shi Lindon — A dual-path sacred artist — pure madra and Blackflame — training under Eithan Arelius and bonded to an ancient sacred turtle. He's advancing at a pace
• Yerin — The Sword Sage's disciple — training separately from Lindon under Eithan's guidance, growing stronger while her Blood Shadow grows hungrier.

Locations

• Serpent's Grave — A frontier city in the Blackflame Empire — where sacred artists come to prove themselves or die trying.

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