The Codex of Heaven and Earth: The Road to Gravemire: 2 (The Seamwrights Series) - Tapa blanda

The Codex of Heaven and Earth (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In a realm where silence is law and memory is contraband, four lives fracture and converge in an investigation that threatens the foundations of order itself.Brigid, the Seeker, sharpens her ledger against corruption, raised in the shadow of her grandmother's lost rituals. Precise, unyielding, and loyal to the record, she becomes the city's sharpest investigator. But when grammar itself fractures and forbidden ribbons begin to sing, Brigid must decide whether to uphold the order she has sworn to protect or bear witness to truths the law cannot contain. Her silence becomes shield, her voice becomes flame, and her ledger begins to write a new kind of law-one born not of decree, but of compassion, fracture, and the quiet rhythm of what returns when voices are cut.Lirien, the bard of scars, carries the songs of eight cities and the weight of a voice that can steady or shatter. Quick-witted, warm, and restless, he longs to belong, to bind a fractured realm with melody. But when his refrain turns to ash and his hunger for belonging breaks those he loves, he must learn that a voice is more than fire-it can be witness, it can be repair. Haunted by ink smears and ghosts, pursued by the Hall's nets, his journey bends from defiance to confession, from public squares to candlelit hush. In his final chapter, Lirien discovers that song is not absolution but memory-that survival sometimes means carrying silence like a lantern under a blanket.Nedrac, the Spiral-Maker, is no ordinary illusionist. Twenty years ago, he forged a spell meant to protect memory and mercy-but instead birthed a hazard that fractured his own mind and left him haunted by ghosts of names he can no longer recall. Now hunted by the Hall's sentinels and burdened by the Codex's riddles, Nedrac moves through taverns, markets, and half-lit lanes as an outlaw no one can name. His illusions bend silence, his spirals fracture perception, and every choice threatens to unmake the very memories he seeks to defend. To master the spiral could mean saving the stories of the broken; to fail could mean losing the last tether to himself.Thalion, the Sentinel of Order, walks the Hollow with iron in his jaw and a writ at his chest. Trained to see cracks where others see comfort, he reads geometry where others hear song. But in Lantern's End, the seam breathes back at him with lullabies and illusions, testing the marrow of his resolve. He knows the witches' candles, the bard's hum, and the spiral-maker's geometry are not harmless-they are instruments meant to soften, to bend men toward a structure not his own. Caught between purge and record, blade and ledger, Thalion discovers that even iron remembers its forge. His vow is pure, his flame is not-and the choice he makes will decide whether law binds the Hollow or blood excises it.And Taiyu-silent thread, unseen hinge, the presence that waits at the seam.As the Hidden Council splinters-some demanding intervention, others urging surrender-the realm itself begins to breathe. What is bound trembles, what is erased returns, and the seam waits for its own witness. Codex of Heaven and Earth: Book Two is a tale of investigation and resistance, of social commentary and psychological horror, of mercy hidden and found. In a doomed struggle against tyranny disguised as litany, the ledger, the song, the spiral, and the iron all carry witness into fracture.The Archive reminds us: the wolf comes for all of us. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798276276823

Contactar al vendedor