A Son of Light and Lies
Book II of V of A Ballad of Chaos by Ankit Choudhury · the mythic cycle · of faiths kept, and faiths broken · Told by Uriel
A lie needs no author. It needs only the silence of the one who knew.
— A Son of Light and Lies
The angel made entirely of light, reborn into a world that builds lies out of it.
Where Book One was fire and rebellion, Book Two is what comes after the fire. Uriel — Heaven's arrow, the one who loosed the final verdict — is remade as a mortal miracle and hunted from his first breath. Prophecy marks him before he can speak. A butcher-king murders children to stall it. He survives into a life that keeps asking him to be a saviour and never once asks whether he wants to be.
He builds. He loves. He loses. He becomes the figure every faith on Earth would later claim as its own, and then discovers that his own hand undid the Eden he bled to protect. The betrayal is not an ambush; it is a slow editorial. His life is rewritten around him, by people who knew better and said nothing, until the story no longer belongs to the man who lived it.
So he chooses the cross — not as a defeat, but as a door. This is the quietest and most human book of the cycle: an angel wandering the ruins of himself, carrying too much memory and not enough hope, still walking forward. It is slower than the war that preceded it, and heavier for it.
Dramatis personae
- Samael the Miracleborn — Born under the weight of prophecy, hunted since before his first breath. To some a saviour, to others a curse — a soul that refuses to yield, even in death.
- Uriel the Redeemed — A man forged in the wilderness of grief and battle — the echo of the angel he once was. He seeks no crown, only justice for the broken.
- Lilith the Veilwrought — The last firstborn of magic, cursed to read the threads of fate. Called traitor, temptress and prophetess — loyal only to destiny itself.
- Simon the Bearer — Once a farmer, then the man who carried Uriel's cross when no one else would. A shield in human form.
- Charon the Oathbound — Once Zachariel the angel, now ferryman of the Red Realm — bound not by chains but by a promise to Lucifer.
- Lucifer the Fatebound — Banished, caged and betrayed, yet never silenced. The prisoner who even in chains bends the world around him.
- Adam the Earthen — The first to rise from dust, fractured by his own choices. Strength without peace; the eternal exile.
- Eve the Tempted — Neither villain nor saint — the one who chose, the one who reached, the one who carried the consequence.
- Pharaoh the Butcher — A king whose crown was forged from the screams of children. Cruelty made flesh; a lesson carved into history.
- Apophis the Shadow Tide — The endless serpent, born of chaos. A darkness that does not destroy, but swallows.
The score
- A Son of Light and Lies — The book's title theme
- A Son of Light and Lies — Alternative version
The edition
208 pages · 28,367 words · about 1 hr 55 min to read · published 31 August 2025.
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