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He was meant to die at Gale Point. He didn't.
Ingressus Voltaris, the Deathsinger, achieved what he set out to do. He struck down his closet childhood friend, Achillean Nestoris, securing the Aggressium Prime Song and cementing his path of vengeance. The guilt was supposed to be the hardest part.
But the hardest part is discovering the strike wasn't fatal.
When Achillean steps back onto the battlefield--wielding the Mobilium Prime Song and marching right into the crossfire--the Second Great War fractures. Achillean doesn't want revenge. He offers forgiveness, determined to save Ingressus from his own darkness, even if he has to break Ingressus's weapons to do it.
Trapped between a resurrected best friend who refuses to hate him, and a ruthless Voltaris veteran, Balthazar, who is ready to mutiny at the first sign of weakness, Ingressus's resolve begins to crumble. To make matters worse, a cynical, clanless healer named Zephyr (xe/xem) is pulling strings from the shadows, and a hot-headed Nestoris protege is hunting Ingressus down for blood.
Can Ingressus finish the crusade he started, or will the ghost of his past rewrite the future of Ardonia?