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Reborn as a Fallen God in a World Ruled by Light

The gods rule from the sky. From radiant thrones above the capital, the Pantheon governs kingdoms, crowns emperors, and decides who lives and who burns. Their power is sustained by faith. Their authority is law. Their immortality is unquestioned. Riven Ashmore once stood among them. He was the Lesser God of Shadow and Forgotten Truths — a quiet deity who ruled over what light could not erase. Secrets. Buried history. The hidden fractures beneath divine order. And he discovered the truth. The gods were never eternal. They were once human. And their divinity was stolen through a forbidden ritual that chained something ancient beneath the world. For daring to speak it, Riven was condemned and executed before heaven and earth — erased in golden chains as the Pantheon declared him a traitor. But death did not accept him. Reborn as a powerless human in the slums of the very capital that witnessed his fall, Riven awakens with only a fractured remnant of his former authority: Shadow. Not mere darkness. But the truth that exists because light does. Now hunted by divine knights and watched by the gods who fear what he knows, Riven must rebuild from nothing — devouring broken fragments of fading divinity, cultivating faith in secret, and turning doubt into a weapon. As belief begins to fracture and heaven starts to rot from within, the Pantheon will learn what they tried to destroy: Even gods cast shadows. And shadows remember.
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