A World Forged in Flame: Starpaths Saga · Book 1

The Aries tribe was cast from Earth by divine decree — scattered among the stars with nothing but a ship, a leader, and an oath older than memory. Their new home is Arietis: a world of volcanic plains, scorched valleys, and ember-lit skies. The air chokes with sulphur. A great volcano looms over everything they build. Nothing here wants them to survive.

But Rae, firstborn son of the god who banished them, holds his people together with fire and sheer will. They build a capital beneath a great volcano. They forge weapons in a sacred furnace fed by the mountain’s own magma. They learn the land — its creatures, its poisons, its strange and terrible beauty.

Then the scouts return with blood on their clothes and fear in their voices.

Something else lives here. Something that watches from the forest with burning red eyes. Something that moves like shadow and strikes like winter. And it has been waiting since before they arrived.

To survive what is coming, the Aries must do what fire alone cannot — trust each other.

A World Forged in Flame is the first book in the Starpaths Saga, a twelve-book celestialpunk epic fantasy series where the twelve zodiac signs are tribes scattered across the stars. For readers of Tolkien’s mythic grandeur, Sanderson’s worldbuilding, and anyone who ever looked at the night sky and wondered what the constellations were trying to say.