The Iron Between Stars

Synopsis

When the Brass Lily Sect murders his master and steals the Sunless Anvil, a forge-orphan named Tau learns the forbidden truth of the Ardent Reaches: a cultivator does not draw power from breath or blood, but from making. Kindle an ember in the heart of a craft, temper it through grief, and climb — Spark, Ember, Flame — toward a rung the sects swear is only a story. Tau means to climb it anyway, hammer in hand, and take back what the Lily stole. He does not yet know the anvil is the heart of a fallen star.

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