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A Son of Night and Chaos
of beginnings, world unmade
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Purchaseevery edition, and every shelf it sits on
Five movements in two volumes — the Omnibus carries the mythic cycle, the Special Edition carries the coda. Or take them one at a time.
The saga, book by book
Four movements make the mythic cycle, and one volume collects them. The fifth stands apart — complete on its own, or in the edition that ties it back to everything before it.
The mythic cycleBooks I–IV, and the one volume that holds themAmazon series page
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II
A Son of Light and Lies
of faiths kept and broken
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III
A Farmer of Perdition
of the price the chosen pay
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IV
A Reaper of Flame and Ruin
of purpose forged from ash
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The Omnibus
the mythic cycle, entire
The codaComplete on its own — or the edition that closes the circle
Coda
A Lament of Dawn
of love outlasting what it loved
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Book V
A Lament of Dawn · Special Edition
the coda, and one chapter more
Details →The same story, carrying an alternate ending that reaches back through all four books of the cycle and ties the mortal ending to the mythic one. This is the edition that closes the circle — read it and the saga finishes where it began.
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Questions readers ask
Where do I start, and what order do the books go in?
Book I, and in order. A Son of Night and Chaos, then A Son of Light and Lies, A Farmer of Perdition, A Reaper of Flame and Ruin, and A Lament of Dawn.
Books I to IV are the mythic cycle and are collected as the Omnibus, the one volume that holds all four. Book V is the coda and is sold on its own.
Is A Lament of Dawn part of the same story?
Yes, and no. It is the fifth movement and the human echo of the first four — and it is the one book that reads whole without a single page of them. No gods, no wings, near-future, and the saga closes at a café table rather than on a battlefield.
If you want it to close the circle instead, the Special Edition carries an alternate ending that reaches back through all four books of the cycle.
Do I need to know the Bible, or Hindu myth, to follow it?
No. The saga borrows from both — the archangels and the fall from one, the Immortals of Agartha and the wheel of time from the other — and recognising a name adds pleasure, not comprehension.
If you would rather have a map: all forty-two figures, with what each of them is, are on one page.
Is this a retelling, or its own story?
Its own. It begins where the oldest story does and then argues with it: Lucifer not as the villain of Heaven but as its first victim, told from the side that lost the telling.
What surfaced was not a war of heaven and hell but a war for meaning, for truth, and for freedom from the cycle of fate itself. The essays take up the arguments the books make in the open.
Which edition should I buy?
Four books at once, or one at a time. The Omnibus is Books I to IV in a single volume; each book is also sold alone in Kindle, paperback and hardcover.
For the coda, the standalone A Lament of Dawn is the whole book; the Special Edition is the same story with the alternate ending. Amazon ships worldwide, Flipkart and NotionPress within India.
Did one person really write, illustrate and score all of it?
Yes. A Ballad of Chaos is not a book — it is a universe, and one man built every layer of it: the novels and the poetry braided through them, the original soundtrack, the artwork and the character portraits, the sigils and the symbology, the covers and the interior design, the essays and the digital media. None of it commissioned or outsourced.
Fifteen years in the making, and it comes out of everything he already is: an artist, a reader, a gamer, an engineer.