{"product_id":"epitaph-proven-foedus-et-monstrum-forefathers-edition-hardcover","title":"Epitaph Proven: Foedus et Monstrum Forefathers Edition - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFlos Nullius\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDestyn Hehr\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an unrecorded era, a bastion of humanity sought the primordial guardians of a calamitous energy of unknown origin and purpose. In the crux of a great war, the actions of one warmonger caused a worldwide outbreak, transforming friend and foe alike into undying entities driven mad with human desire. That warmonger, wrought with guilt, painted a faceless woman before disappearing from the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat warmonger would be worshipped by some as the \"Begetter,\" a god who had ushered the era of the tainted ones. Several millennia following the beginning of the Scourge, one tainted sought to reunite with his so-called creator and founded the Elegies, a group of like-minded tainted including Enlenea, the faceless painting granted life by the Scourge. But Enlenea empathised with the plight of a human woman, and that woman would gift Enlenea with what she secretly desired-humanity and the power to forge her own life, at the cost of suffering a broken world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thousand years later, Lyaphend Farwalth is born in Golem, an advanced nation among many scattered in the forlorn lands. Possessing the power of a tainted, the will of a human, and a glaive exalted by the former guardians of the Scourge, Lyaphend must reclaim her memories as Enlenea to decide her fate in a world with both mortal and otherworldly beings seeking to use her for their purposes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut with her nation at the cusp of political upheaval and a terrifying nemesis from her past life waiting in the shadows, she may well be fated to suffer an unforgiving life-provided she can suppress the dormant mad spirit within her and avoid becoming her own greatest enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this rerelease of Foedus et Monstrum, the grim underworld of Golem is further explored in the 14,000-word special chapter, \"The Worrier and the Warrioress!\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 374\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 31, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45361092231219,"sku":"9798218464677","price":71.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/2191\/6467\/files\/pdlMxBVsA9798218464677.webp?v=1794657102","url":"https:\/\/thereadinghousebookcompany.com\/products\/epitaph-proven-foedus-et-monstrum-forefathers-edition-hardcover","provider":"The Reading House Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}