The Sevenfold Bleed: Heir to the Wound

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Volume 1: Heir to the Wound

Roan Vance does not have the luxury of being a prodigy.

He has a sick mother, a younger sister, a dead father with too many secrets, and a body that should have kept him below the notice of the Black Spire. Then the Codex Shard wakes under his skin.

The Shard gives him Capacity: six chances to turn damage into leverage. Frostburn becomes force. Pressure becomes a weapon. Pain becomes something he can spend.

It is useful. It is also not generous.

At Black Spire, Roan hides behind false readings, cheap equipment, and a talent for making powerful people miscalculate. Noble houses, Sentinel politics, Rift creatures, and old debts all start circling the same question: what did Aldric Vance leave behind, and why are six hostile signatures still waiting on his son's ledger?

Roan is not here to become a hero.

He is here to survive long enough to settle the count.