In a world where Man and Personi, the firstborn, wage war for either the beliefs of Alsilmo their creator, or the beleifs of Ruin their false god a Personi in reality, the Charistis fight alongside the ideals of Alsilmo. They are sometimes said to be not men nor Personi, but they are human. The Charistis are those living gifts and sacrifices given by Alsilmo the burden of powers that mimic those of the God himself and the higher Personi. The Wars of Abstraction these conflicts where called.
But after the sixth war of Abstraction something changed with the last shattering, the last Oathling, and the death of the last Charistis. The Personi went into hiding, and the magic given by Alsilmo receded from the world, until…
A young boy, not knowing the origins of his christening, named Ruin has his life torn apart by lingering shadows, he teaters on the edge of madness and of something else…
Can Ruin restrain himself from reforging into something akin to what broke his life, can he fight on through the pain, and can he reach out and take the strange something that balances at the edge of what he sees possible…