Forsaken

A necromantic Egyptian empire rules from a Cairo rebuilt in black stone and circuitry. Negative Energy — harvested, refined, weaponised — powers an undead civilisation where souls are currency and death is an industry. The Lich-Pharaoh An'karset presides over the weighing of hearts with ten-thousand-year-old patience, his Necroborg sentinels enforcing order through bronze and preserved flesh. In a world where entropy has been legislated against, the most dangerous thing is a variable the system didn't predict.

Series

An'Karset

The Lich-Pharaoh An'karset has ruled his necromantic empire for millennia through cold calculus and absolute control. Every soul is accounted for, every variable predicted, every leak sealed. When something unpredictable finally emerges — a soul that slips through, a slave girl who stands too close, a signal from the irradiated Badlands — the immortal ruler discovers that his perfect system has a flaw: curiosity.

2 books

Anna

In the laboratories of the Forsaken empire, Negative Energy is poured into living flesh to create something that should not exist: a Necroborg with the face of a child, carrying an awareness no engineered construct was designed to hold. From a father's desperate experiment on his own daughter to the silent corridors of the Great Temple, these are stories about what happens when a system built to extinguish personhood accidentally creates it.

1 book

Nari

Nari is Sedjem — a temple slave, unnamed by law, invisible by design. She scrubs blood from judgment hall floors while priests weigh the hearts of the condemned. In an empire that has industrialised death and legislated against entropy, she occupies the lowest tier, seeing everything and permitted to witness nothing. When the undying Pharaoh asks for her name, the most dangerous thing in the Forsaken empire happens: someone at the bottom is noticed by the one at the top.

1 book

Natasha

Leonid Symonov loved his daughter enough to destroy her. When Natasha was dying, he turned to Negative Energy — forbidden, corrosive, alive in ways physics cannot explain — and poured it into her body on a metal table surrounded by cables and equations. The girl who wakes decades later is not entirely his daughter and not entirely something else. She carries a hum in her bones and a darkness in her veins, and the empire that created the technology wants to know what she's become.

1 book