Epitaph Proven

<p>In 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.</p><p></p><p>That 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.</p><p></p><p>A 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.</p><p></p><p>But 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.</p><p></p><p><strong>In this rerelease of Foedus et Monstrum the grim underworld of Golem is further explored in the 14000-word special chapter The Worrier and the Warrioress!</strong></p>