Every Sky a Grave

Far in the future, human beings have seeded themselves amongst the stars. Since decoding the language of the universe eight thousand years ago, they have reached the very edges of their known galaxy and built a near-utopia across thousands of worlds, united and ruled by a powerful organization: the Ascendance. The peaceful stability of their society relies solely on their application of the Deep Language of the cosmos.

But this knowledge is a valuable secret, and a holy order of monastics called the First House has been tasked with monitoring its use and “correcting” humanity’s further development. Elyth is one such Advocate, trained as a planetary assassin, capable of infiltrating and ultimately destroying corrupt worlds using nothing more than words.

To this end, Elyth is sent to Qel in response to the reemergence of a forbidden strain of Deep Language that was supposed to have disappeared with its inventor more than seven hundred years earlier. What she finds on the backwater planetoid will put her abilities to the test and challenge what she knows of the Deep Language, the First House, and the very nature of the universe.

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